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Why do cat and more wrap lines differently?
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowWhy the inconsistency with using cat vs. echo piped to this sed command?Selectively record commands and output from terminal to MySQL tableMac OS X combine cp and cat to sequentially copy and rename files in listHow to improve my unix skills and learn more advanced topics?Wrap all lines with character sequence in vimHow to upload a file and then check it and run some other commands using only ssh, cat, and diff in a single SSH session?bash script that incorporates content from a file as part of a commandKeep terminal input line at the top of the terminal?more command displays how many lines at a time?How to use bash cat * to wrap?
It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks added the first time. My question is why, and is there any way to make more behave like cat? (I really don't like this setting of more, when I copy I end up getting the line breaks that I don't want.)
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It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks added the first time. My question is why, and is there any way to make more behave like cat? (I really don't like this setting of more, when I copy I end up getting the line breaks that I don't want.)
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It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks added the first time. My question is why, and is there any way to make more behave like cat? (I really don't like this setting of more, when I copy I end up getting the line breaks that I don't want.)
linux cat more
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It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks added the first time. My question is why, and is there any way to make more behave like cat? (I really don't like this setting of more, when I copy I end up getting the line breaks that I don't want.)
linux cat more
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Reading man more:
-f Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
preceded by:
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE
(make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
So at your convenience you can either do:
more -f /some/file/with/long/lines
or export it in the MORE variable:
$ export MORE=-f
$ more /some/file/with/long/lines
This should probably be put in some shell login script such as $HOME/.profile.
answered 2 days ago
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I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want havingmoredoing this.
– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
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2 days ago
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Reading man more:
-f Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
preceded by:
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE
(make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
So at your convenience you can either do:
more -f /some/file/with/long/lines
or export it in the MORE variable:
$ export MORE=-f
$ more /some/file/with/long/lines
This should probably be put in some shell login script such as $HOME/.profile.
answered 2 days ago
A.BA.B
5,6221829
I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want havingmoredoing this.
– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
2 days ago
add a comment |
Reading man more:
-f Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
preceded by:
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE
(make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
So at your convenience you can either do:
more -f /some/file/with/long/lines
or export it in the MORE variable:
$ export MORE=-f
$ more /some/file/with/long/lines
This should probably be put in some shell login script such as $HOME/.profile.
answered 2 days ago
A.BA.B
5,6221829
I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want havingmoredoing this.
– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
2 days ago
add a comment |
Reading man more:
-f Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
preceded by:
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE
(make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
So at your convenience you can either do:
more -f /some/file/with/long/lines
or export it in the MORE variable:
$ export MORE=-f
$ more /some/file/with/long/lines
This should probably be put in some shell login script such as $HOME/.profile.
answered 2 days ago
A.BA.B
5,6221829
Reading man more:
-f Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
preceded by:
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE
(make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
So at your convenience you can either do:
more -f /some/file/with/long/lines
or export it in the MORE variable:
$ export MORE=-f
$ more /some/file/with/long/lines
This should probably be put in some shell login script such as $HOME/.profile.
answered 2 days ago
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I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want havingmoredoing this.
– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
2 days ago
add a comment |
I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want havingmoredoing this.
– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
2 days ago
I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want having
more doing this.– A.B
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I saw you asked "why" and admit I'm still dumbfounded at what historical reason probably related to vt100 behaviour or email conventions or even very old printer output (3 random wild guesses) made want having
more doing this.– A.B
2 days ago
ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
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ah, I didn't realize 'fold' means something different from 'wrap' here. Thanks so much!!
– welkin
2 days ago
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