[LAU] How to post selected contend of a configuration file Was: OT - Re: Kernel 2.6.39 Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 52, Issue 33

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2011/6/23 S C Rigler <riglersc at gmail.com>:

> ...
> Grep is fully capably capable of matching lines directly from the file
> so you don't need anything piping the file to it.  ...

Now, what if the file is compressed ?

There is
bzless config.tar.bz2 | grep PREEMT*

would that somehow work pipeless ?


> $ less config-2.6.39.1 | grep PREEMPT

It's also possible with the angle bracket
<config.txt  grep PREEMT*

BUT: I really would NOT recommend that.
If you accidentally reverse the bracket (>), you've lost....

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