I'm trying to run less in Linux, and I want it to search for something immediately after launch.
It's basically like doing this:
$ less
Then press '/', type a search pattern like "^commit \w+$", then press enter, and press 'n' to find each subsequent result.
I'd like less to be launched, and then search for a pattern. There doesn't seem to be anything in the man page about starting with a pattern, but perhaps you can send it commands like Vim.
From the man page:
-ppattern or --pattern=pattern
The -p option on the command line is equivalent to specifying
+/pattern; that is, it tells less to start at the first occur-
rence of pattern in the file.
This works as expected using the latest version of less (436).
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