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Making less print to stdout if an entire file can be displayed on one screen
When more is passed a file whose contents can be displayed on one screen, it just writes the file's contents to stdout without pagination. If the file cannot fit on one screen, more paginates it.
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Is more or find more resource intensive in finding the number of times an item lists in a file?
I recently read How to find the total number of occurrences of text and files with find command, which asked about a way to find the number of times text "abc" appears in a file. The answer there ...
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Using more command
Is there any case or reason to use "more" unix command instead of "less". As far as I see "less" is "better" in all senses, so does it mean that "more" is a command which has no reason to be used when ...
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Which systems have 'pager' shortcut/alias?
On a Debian system, one can type pager in order to use whatever pager program happens to be default/available. By default, less is used, and if not available, the lesser more gets to do the job. Is ...
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Isn't less just more?
When I do more filename and less filename, it would seem that the resulting terminals are quite similar. I can navigate and search through my files identically (j, Space, /pattern, etc.).
I find it ...
