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Old 24th October 2011
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
I must be missing something here. Could you please explain above. On my (arguably OpenBSD desktop)

% man cat | less

piples man pages for command cat into less thereby allowing regular expression search vi style.
% man less
Just gives me man pages for command less.

You seem to claim that those two are the same. Could you please explain?
I'm sorry, I said it wrong. I corrected the original post. What I meant was:

Using % man cat | less is exactly the same as just using % man cat.
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