Subject: Re: add less in /rescue
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/02/2004 17:55:35
On Friday 02 July 2004 17:45, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:30, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Occasionally today i had to actually use tools from /rescue and i found
> > quite annoying feature: with mounted root / i don't see less, more, head,
> > tail, grep, vi - nothing. So i cannot actually inspect for example output
> > of dmesg.
> >
> > Any ideas ? Looks like /rescut need some tools to manage text output.
> >
> > // wbr
>
> You could save the output of dmesg into a file and use ed to inspect its
> contents.

Maybe i'm wrong but ed is a bit ascetic utility.. :)

// wbr