This will print out the files and directories in a gzipped tarball.
Instead of dumping the entire query to the screen, it will use 'less -S' to handle pagination. This means you can move back and forward through the result set, and instead of wrapping rows at screen boundaries, the table will extend off the screen, and can be scrolled left and right with arrow keys.
nothing fancy `ls` alternative `exa`, with most info printed and passed through less with the `-R` (raw) option, to preserve colour output https://github.com/ogham/exa You can add or remove `-@` to print extended attributes for files that have them. Show Sample Output
Opens up a tab separated file in less with columns printed prettily
Useful for situations where you have word lists or dictionaries that range from hundreds of megabytes to several gigabytes in size. Replace file.lst with your wordlist, replace 50000 with however many lines you want the resulting list to be in total. The result will be redirected to output.txt in the current working directory. It may be helpful to run wc -l file.lst to find out how many lines the word list is first, then divide that in half to figure out what value to put for the head -n part of the command.
Use the following key binding to search
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ng
: Jump to line number n. Default is the start of the file.
nG
: Jump to line number n. Default is the end of the file.
/pattern
: Search for pattern. Regular expressions can be used. [/ = slash] Press / and then Enter to repeat the previous search pattern. Press ESC and then u to undo search highlighting.
n
: Go to next match (after a successful search).
N
: Go to previous match.
mletter
: Mark the current position with letter.
'letter
: Return to position letter. [' = single quote]
'^ or g
: Go to start of file.
'$ or G
: Go to end of file.
s
: Save current content (got from another program like grep) in a file.
= or Ctrl+g
: File information.
F
: continually read information from file and follow its end. Useful for logs watching. Use Ctrl+c to exit this mode.
-option
: Toggle command-line option -option.
h
: Help.
There is no need to 'zcat textfile.gz | less' with newer distros. This is useful for reading archived log files without having to extract, read, and zip when done.
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