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BlueSkies
Asked: 2019-11-23 06:42:23 +0800 CST

Is there a way to page through text one occurance of a string at the time?

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more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time is said in man pages for more. Is there a way to page through text, but instead of getting to the next page, the procedure will get to the next occurance of a string supplied via a parameter? The first time it will display the first occurance of the string (at the top of the screen) let's say, STRING1. The next time I press the SPACE bar, the crt display will show the line of the next occurance of string STRING1, etc.

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    Read man more.

    It describes the command line option: 

    +/string
     The string to be searched in each file before starting to display it.

    And it also describes the '/' and 'n' interactive commands:

    /pattern  Search for kth occurrence of regular expression.  Defaults to 1.

n         Search for kth occurrence of last regular expression.  Defaults to 1.
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