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hgiesel
hgiesel

Reputation: 5658

Using .lessfilter

I've seen several programmers using ./lessfilter filtes for preprocessing files before being feeded to less. However my less doesn't seem to recognize my .lessfilter file in ~. What am I doing wrong? My manpage of less doesn't mention it.

$ less —version
less 481 (POSIX regular expressions)
Copyright (C) 1984-2015  Mark Nudelman

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2209

Answers (1)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54583

Noting the comment: the less manual page does not mention .lessfilter, and it is not a feature of less (see source code).

Instead, it is used in some examples which set the LESSOPEN variable to a script. Here are a few places where that is mentioned:

So you may have seen this feature in a Fedora package, or seen someone using it based on the several places it was described, but it is not generally part of less.

Upvotes: 5

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