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NAME

page - Open files for viewing and reading in realtime

SYNOPSIS

page ARGUMENTS

DESCRIPTION

The page command is used to open files for viewing using your configured pager program, such as less. It's a quick time-saver that uses the $PAGER variable in your shell for viewing files quickly, or in real-time as they are updated. All arguments passed into this utility will be passed onward to the configured shell pager program.

page is provided by homer. For more information, check out:

https://github.com/tubbo/homer#readme

ARGUMENTS

ARGUMENTS Arguments passed to the pager.

EXAMPLES

Open a file with your pager:

page /var/log/system.log

CONFIGURATION

To configure which program is opened when the page command is run, set the $PAGER variable in your shell like so:

export PAGER="less -r"

(Homer will do this for you in ~/.zshenv)

AUTHOR

Tom Scott http://psychedeli.ca

SEE ALSO

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