I have just installed Cygwin, and I have displayed a file's contents using the less
command. Now I am unable to exit that in order to type other commands:
I want to exit this mode to type some other commands. How can I do that?
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, type q.
Also, check out man less
, or type h from within less
for some more, useful bits of information.
In general, assuming man
has been properly installed, man xyz
will tell you how to use the xyz
tool. On GNU systems like Cygwin or what you call Linux at least, man
will usually display through less
as well, so to exit from man
, again you would type q (which also works in more
or most
which are other pagers used by man
or other commands that need paging on other systems).
q
does not work if I am using less under tmux, is it normal case? Please see: superuser.com/questions/1646175/…
I think you can exit by pressing Ctrl+C.
-K
or --quit-on-intr
and then it will terminate on Ctrl+C.
Jan 12 at 11:21
Just press Q (lowercase). No need to press anything else. Some times, you need a capital letter.
cat
but it does not require to press anything when it has finished to print file. Addcat --version
just in case to your question and perhaps a copy of your screen.