Both
more and
less (as used by
man) have a bunch of features (and i have trouble remembering more than 2 or 3 myself), but...
h gets us the
help screen (and
q will
quit it)
/ the slash starts a search string, so...
/-n and then
return would find the first "-n" (case insensitive)
once a search is under way,
n finds the
next, and
N (shift-n) finds the previous
esc-u will get rid of the highlighting, if it becomes too distracting.
[check the help (h), it gets
way deeper than that.]
It may well confuse matters here that "n" was both the metacharacter (n for next)
and also what we were searching for in this example!
--
Hmm, it's an interesting kind of "case-insensitive" search: if we stick with lowercase, it will find any-and-all cases... but if we specify uppercase (using caps), then it becomes case-sensitive on us.
Note: before Tiger (or Panther? perhaps),
man used
more. Ever since however, it uses
less. (just means that the text goes away when we
q).
[edit#42a: that may have more to do with the bash version than the OS.]
