Re: [SLUG] searching in "less"

From: Matthew Rogers (matt@runithard.com)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2009 - 14:33:10 EST


Force it all to one case using the lc() function in perl maybe?

<rant>
Maybe I'm a perl fanboy, but usually when I want to do something in the
shell I can do it with 5 lines of perl in a few seconds, vs. spending 20
minutes researching the extended functions of all sorts of complex
non-conforming "shell" programs.
</rant>

:-)

--Matt

Eben King wrote:
> Is there any way to do a case-insensitive search in "less" other than
> something like
>
> /[wW][oO][rR][dD]
>
> ?
>
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