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Re: help --help or some such
- To: "Paul Bailey" <pmbailey at senet dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: help --help or some such
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:57:02 -0600
- CC: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
Generally, I use the scroll bar for this, but I think what you're
looking for is
diff --help | less
Regards,
Doug Wyatt
> When running Cygnus, and get --help on a command, say:
>
> ls --help
>
> the page scrolls right to the end of the description. (Try "diff --help"
> for an acute example of this.)
>
> How can I use "--help" so I get one page at a time? Or do I use another
> command to get the same effect?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Paul Bailey.
>
>
>
>
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