Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

[_xhr_@cybervillains.com]

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

[irenes@mastodon.social]

@_xhr_ oh hey!

we're happy to know this and may end up using it, if we can remember about it long enough to get in the habit...

but mostly, as one person who's been using it for decades to another, we cannot think of a worse condemnation of the UX that it takes THAT LONG to discover things in it

[irenes@mastodon.social]

@_xhr_ too many of these tools are like that, it's quite frustrating

[benaveling@mastodon.world]

@irenes If it's any consolation, a quick search on github suggests that the "&" command was only implemented 17 years ago, so it hasn't quite been there for decades. @_xhr_

[irenes@mastodon.social]

@BenAveling @_xhr_ lol. yes. it is some consolation, thank you.

[medley56@frontrange.co]

@irenes @_xhr_ Do you (pl?) write a lot of academic papers?

[irenes@mastodon.social]

@medley56 @_xhr_ us? no