a good way to save a keystroke?

Jake Stride jake.stride at senokian.com
Fri Nov 21 08:52:17 PST 2003


On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 16:44 Europe/London, Marty Landman wrote:

> I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of 
> which to more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I 
> backticked the which output with more in front that would work, and 
> apparently it does (though I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't 
> executed?).
>
> e.g. more `which apachectl`
>
> Is this a reasonable way to get what I'm after, or a bad thing?
>

more <filename>
cat <filename> | more

Should work

Jake



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