NAME¶

tp - a pure perl pager

SYNOPSIS¶

    tp -[JSenrs] [-cols] [-f STR] [-j|+ #] [-p|+/ STR] [FILE]...

OPTIONS¶

-e

Exit at end of file.

-f STR

If defined, the pager will pause when the character sequence specified by STR is encountered in the input text.

The default value when enabled is formfeed i.e; ^L; in order to mimic traditional behavior of "1" in more, but due to the pecularities of Getopt::Long> you need to use the -- argument separator in order to to trigger this e.g;

    tp -f -- foo #pauses on lines in foo with "^L" in them
    

You might also supply a regular expression as STR e.g;

    tp -f '[ie]t' bar #pauses on lines in bar with "it" or "et" in them
    

-J

Add a column with markers indicating which lines match a search expression.

-n

Display line numbering. Toggleable at run time with #.

-r

Send raw control characters from input unadulterated to the terminal. By default, chracters other than tab and newline will be converted to caret notation e.g; ^@ for null or ^L for form feed.

-s

Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.

-S

Do not fold long lines.

-[ or --scrollbar

Display an interactive scrollbar in the right-most column.

-$ or --tail

Keep checking the displayed file for new content. Only available when paging a single file.

--cols

Set the number of columns for the pager.

If absent, the terminal is queried directly with Term::ReadKey if loaded or "stty" or "tput", and if these fail it defaults to 80.

User Interface¶

"C-" is Control, "M-" is Meta/Alt, "S-" is Shift, and "\d+" is a sequence of digits

Options¶

toggle line-numbering - #

toggle folding - S

toggle raw/cooked output - C

ENVIRONMENT¶

tp checks the LESS, MORE, TPOPT, TERM and TERMCAP variables.

The TPOPT variable is used to set options explicitly for tp, by concatenating undecorated options together e.g; Sr for squished raw output.

LESS and MORE are checked for options that tp supports, and if detected they are enabled.

SEE ALSO¶

IO::Pager::Perl, less(1)

AUTHORS¶

    Jerrad Pierce jpierce@cpan.org

LICENSE¶

• Thou shalt not claim ownership of unmodified materials.
• Thou shalt not claim whole ownership of modified materials.
• Thou shalt grant the indemnity of the provider of materials.
• Thou shalt use and dispense freely without other restrictions.

Or, if you prefer:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.