On Friday 03 April 2009 04:00:45 Steve Searle wrote: > round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward scrawled: > > I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague > > insisted I do not use less but view instead. [snip] > Also you can't pipe into it, e.g you can't use view to do something > like: > > $ dmesg | less Of course you can: $ dmesg|view - Vim: Reading from stdin... $ > In short they are different tools that have some overlap in what > they can do, but they are not functionally equivalent. Yup. -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines