Subject: Re: Stopping wildcard expansion?
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/11/2000 02:21:56
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

> > > >  ff () { find ${PWD} ! -name tags -printx | xargs grep -l $1 | \
> > > >  LESS=+/$1 xargs less ; }
> > > 
> > > Why ${PWD} rather than . ?
> > 
> > So "=" in less displays the full path to the file. If I came back to
> > the xterm a couple of days later, I can usually infer from that what I
> 
> Ah.  Good plan.  (^&
> 
> (But couldn't you just suspend less, check the path, and resume less?)

I guess so. That's a lot harder than just hitting one key. Whatever.