page
- Open files for viewing and reading in realtime
page
ARGUMENTS
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 passed to the pager.
Open a file with your pager:
page /var/log/system.log
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
)
Tom Scott http://psychedeli.ca
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