Posts tagged less

MWE touch d less d # jump to editing d without leaving less Question Is there a way to edit a file from viewing it in less? Jumping straight into Vim would be preferred, but an answer for e...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by celtschk‭

Less does not display data files normally, but if it were some sort of Xxd. $ bash --norc $ export LESS= $ file -i /var/log/lastlog /var/log/lastlog: application/octet-stream; charset=binary $...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Quasímodo‭