July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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Leap line fields
The format of a leap line is:
Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R|S
YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS
Specify when the leap second happened.
CORR
Uses + or - to show whether the second was added or skipped.
R|S
Rolling or Stationary. Describe whether the leap second
should be applied to local wall-clock time or GMT,
respectively.
zless
zless files
Uncompress files and allow paging through them. Equivalent to
running zmore with the environment variable PAGER set to less.
See zmore for the available commands.
zmore
zmore [files]
Similar to more. Uncompress files and print them one screenful at
a time. Works on files compressed with compress, gzip,orpack,
and with uncompressed files.
Commands
space
Print next screenful.
ispace
Print next i lines.
Return
Print one more line.
d, ^D
Print next i, or 11, lines.
iz Print next i lines or a screenful. If i is specified, treat it as the
new window size for the rest of the current file, then revert
back to the default.
is Skip i lines. Print next screenful.
if Skip i screens. Print next screenful.
q, Q, :q, :Q
Go to next file or, if current file is the last, exit zmore.
e, q Exit zmore when the prompt “--More--(Next file: file)” is
displayed.
s Skip next file and continue when the prompt “--More--(Next
file: file)” is displayed.
= Print ...
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