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Just the other day I was looking for a way to do this in less: yank 10 lines, open a new file, paste the 10 lines, save the file. Is that possible? My Googlin

• bch 12y ago
  If you wanted to grab 10 lines from /var/log/messages, starting at the first line that has "pjungwlr" in it, you could: $ less /var/log/msgs /pjungwlr^M ^G (note line informational line numbers) v (launch vi) [double check your line #s, etc] :d1,. (delete from 1st line, to current line) 10j (go down 10 lines) :d,$ (delete to EOF) :w my_newfile :q
  • technofiend 12y ago
    This is such a common problem there's a stackoverflow article on it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17908555/printing-with-sed-or-awk-a-line-following-a-matching-pattern http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17908555/printing-with-se... (Actually, there's probably more than one despite their really good duplication grooming, but this was the first hit.)
  • pjungwir 12y ago
    `v` was the missing key for me. Looks like it even preserves my position in the file. Thanks!
• kragen 12y ago
  Usually I `ma|acat > newfile` in less, which saves by default a whole screenfull. There must be a better way to do this in less.