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wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller This is from here: http://www.pearsonitcertification.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2438789

I don't have the RHCE Certification Book with me currently. I'm reading through the 500 ish pages of the command line book

Edit: If it doesn't I will simply buy a book that does

wirestyle22

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

travisdh1

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

EddieJennings

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"I've been doing $task for $amountOfTime" does not always equal knowledge/understanding.
</vent>

dafyre

@EddieJennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

<vent>
"I've been doing $task for $amountOfTime" does not always equal knowledge/understanding.
</vent>

Especially if you are following a set of predefined instructions with no guide on troubleshooting issues that come up.

wirestyle22

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

I actually never used either. I just opened everything up in a text editor and didn't edit it but that is a dangerous way to do it.

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

You have it backwards. Less is the new one that replaced more. It's getting out of the habit of using more that us old timers need to do. We only had more when I started.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

You have it backwards. Less is the new one that replaced more. It's getting out of the habit of using more that us old timers need to do. We only had more when I started.

It's like I told @wirestyle22 yesterday offline, that I use them both. If I'm expecting a huge blurb of data, I'll use less. But most of the time, more does the trick.

coliver

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

I actually never used either. I just opened everything up in a text editor and didn't edit it but that is a dangerous way to do it.

less is really powerful. A good command to learn.

scottalanmiller

less is basically read only vi

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

less is basically read only vi

I can buy that. You do have a way to do less interactively if I recall.

wirestyle22

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

less is basically read only vi

I can buy that. You do have a way to do less interactively if I recall.

It's always interactive.

wirestyle22

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

I actually never used either. I just opened everything up in a text editor and didn't edit it but that is a dangerous way to do it.

less is really powerful. A good command to learn.

Yeah I'm reading all about it and I have a test VM open to go through each command

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

You have it backwards. Less is the new one that replaced more. It's getting out of the habit of using more that us old timers need to do. We only had more when I started.

Yeah, I was horribly imprecise again. I did mean that less is the new one.

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

travisdh1

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

In school, the profs all said that the initial commands for UNIX were thought up by a bunch of drunk college people.

wirestyle22

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

In school, the profs all said that the initial commands for UNIX were thought up by a bunch of drunk college people.

more its extremely limited. You can't even scroll back.

EDIT: To be completely accurate you can scroll all over a page but you can't PAGE back.

wirestyle22

The more I read the more sense Linux makes and the less sense Windows makes. Symbolic links are fantastic.