On Jan 10, 2008 7:11 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sure, more(8) doesn't looking for the pattern everywhere in the file > (unlike less(8)). The search facility works between the current > position and end of file. The current position is at end of screen. Hmm, I was searching for things on the current screen (i.e. things that I could see) How is the :"current position" determined? I agree that this is reproducible on many different distros (since I compiled the upstream code and it was there), which is why I reported it here I also couldn't believe that the reporter wasn't use less for this functionality, which I suggested to him. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html