From 5927a3f2e37eb58585934bc0925c063796d9f49d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Neukirchen Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:36:46 +0200 Subject: add manpages --- man/mless.1 | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/mless.1 (limited to 'man/mless.1') diff --git a/man/mless.1 b/man/mless.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0a3a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/man/mless.1 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.Dd July 22, 2016 +.Dt MLESS 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mless +.Nd interactive wrapper around mshow +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Ar msgs\ ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +runs +.Xr less 1 +on the output of +.Xr mshow 1 +for the given messages. +See +.Xr mmsg 5 +for the message argument syntax. +.Pp +When no messages are passed and standard input is from a pipe, +.Xr msetseq 1 +will be called and +.Nm +is run on the resulting sequence. +The first "file" of the less instance will be the output of +.Xr mscan 1 . +This makes +.Nm +convenient for use at the end of a pipe. +.Pp +.Nm +will start +.Xr less 1 +displaying the current message if possible. +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr less 1 , +.Xr mscan 1 , +.Xr msetseq 1 , +.Xr mshow 1 , +.Xr mmsg 5 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Christian Neukirchen Aq Mt chneukirchen@gmail.com +.Sh LICENSE +.Nm +is in the public domain. +.Pp +To the extent possible under law, +the creator of this work +has waived all copyright and related or +neighboring rights to this work. +.Pp +.Lk http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ -- cgit 1.4.1