Line_By_Line

Display the content of text-files line by line

Synopsis

line_by_line -s [textfile] <options>

Description

line_by_line will print out the content of a text file one line at a time, and the next line only after the user has pushed a key. The default-behavior is to progress character by character through a line of text, to create the impression of the text just being typed, while you read along. You can impose with the option -f, that a whole line is displayed at once, instead and with the option -l determine the line-number where the output shall start.

Options

Specific options:

-s, --source FILE read this file (MANDATORY)

-f, --fast display at once entire lines

-l, --line LINE start reading file at line 'line'

Common options:

-h, --help Show the short help message

-v, --version Show version and program information

Other Information

License:line_by_line is distributed as Free Software under the conditions of the Gnu General Public License, version 3 or later (http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
Version:0.8 (May 2017)
Development and Source Code:
 line_by_line is programmed in Ruby and distributed as a Ruby-Gem. If you have installed the program from this Gem-file, find the gem-folder for your ruby-version (something like /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[version]/gems/line_by_line) and access the source-files there. Otherwise you can also unpack the gem-file with tar -xf then decompress the data-archive with gunzip.
Author:line_by_line has been developed by Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu>

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