Horizontal scrolling in smaller increments with less -S
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I'm using
less
to parse HTTP access logs. I want to view everything neatly on single lines, so I'm using -S
.
The problem I have is that the first third of my terminal window is taken up with metadata that I don't care about. When I use my arrow keys to scroll right, I find that it scrolls past the start of the information that I do care about!
I could just delete the start of each line, but I don't know if I may need that data in the future, and I'd rather not have to maintain separate files or run a script each time I want to view some logs.
### Example
This line:
> access.log00002:10.0.0.0 - USER_X [07/Nov/2013:16:50:50 +0000] "GET /some/long/URL"
Would scroll to: ng/URL"
### Question
Is there a way I can scroll in smaller increments, either by character or by word?
Asked by Mike
(851 rep)
Nov 25, 2014, 04:32 PM
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