HOWTO: jump to a specific portion of a huge file with less
$ less +56g hugefile.txt # it goes to the 56th line
$ less +56p hugefile.txt # it goes into the 56% of the file
$ less +56P hugefile.txt # it goes to the line containing the 56th byte
$ less +56g hugefile.txt # it goes to the 56th line
$ less +56p hugefile.txt # it goes into the 56% of the file
$ less +56P hugefile.txt # it goes to the line containing the 56th byte
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