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Script for viewing long files in tty using only head, tail, echo, bc
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#!/bin/sh
# Use to view long files without more or less
# One-liner so that it may be easily echo'd to /bin/pcat instead of using ed
# Usage:
# pcat filename pagenum
head -n $(echo "$2 * 20" | bc) $1 | tail -n 20
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