Tech Tip: Create an Automatically Scrolling Reader

Posted by tracyanne on Oct 14, 2011 4:21 AM EDT
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By combining three useful command-line tools (less, watch and xdotool) along with two xterm windows, you can create an automatically scrolling reader.



Say you have a good book in text-file form ('book.txt') that you just downloaded from Project Gutenberg. more>>

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