For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Less-381 in Chapter 6.
(Last checked against version 381.)
Less is a file pager, or text viewer. It displays the contents of a file, or stream, and has the ability to scroll. Less has a few features not included in the more pager, such as the ability to scroll backwards.
Installed programs: less, lessecho and lesskey
less is a file viewer or pager. It displays the contents of the given file, letting you scroll around, find strings, and jump to marks.
lessecho is needed to expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.
lesskey is used to specify the key bindings for less.
(Last checked against version 358.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, expr, hostname, install, mv, rm, touch, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Grep: egrep, grep
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Ncurses: (libraries)
Make: make
Sed: sed