On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 07:05 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > Correction... > > > Press the RETURN key and less now numbers the lines. Note that long > > filenames that go to the next line are indeed another line > > Although another line, the line number does not change. So there goes > my theory... > > > > > Jacques B. > > > The command less is a formatting command. Yes, Jacques, it does indeed apply line breaks at the character size of the terminal (unless you specify a different line size). Thus the selection process which picks text out of the display buffer now only gets up to the line break. The line numbers you speak of are the lines in the source data file, so even though less breaks them to multiple lines on the display, the source still reflects only one line, thus the same input line number is repeated. You will have this kind of problem using normal select on any formatted output, including more, less and some forms of cat. Regards, Les H
