[Cialug] Display file contents either with less or cat based on number of lines

[Nathan Stien]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Scott Prader <sprader at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Could probably write a wrapper for cat (maybe call it dog) and have it
> reference /etc/mine.types and/or the file command so that once it
> understands the 'scent' of the file, it will know how to process the file
> based off of the preferred application for it.
>
Relevant:
http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html
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