From 833de4152b3dbb234e5833c901fd4e8696fd8169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Sima <ben@bsima.me>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 08:54:13 -0500
Subject: add @jb55's reading scripts

---
 lessr | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 lessr

(limited to 'lessr')

diff --git a/lessr b/lessr
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..05469a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lessr
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+dir=$(dirname "$1")
+base=$(basename "$1")
+
+if [ "$base" == "" ]; then
+	exit 3
+fi
+
+export LESSHISTFILE="$dir/.$base.hst"
+touch $LESSHISTFILE || :
+
+# use a fallback dir if it's not writable
+if [ ! -w "$LESSHISTFILE" ]
+then
+    dir="$HOME/var/marks"
+    mkdir -p "$dir"
+    export LESSHISTFILE="$dir/.$base.hst"
+fi
+
+# export LESS="-cix8JRM --save-marks"
+exec less --save-marks "$@"
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