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• See also cat

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
A pager (file viewer).

A replacement for more.

It's ok, but not great.

Using less as the default pager ∞

export PAGER='less -F -f -R'

Less is also incompetent by default in PCLinuxOS as of 2009-03-25. man[doesn't exist] pages are all ugly. I add this to my .bashrc to fix it:

alias less="/usr/bin/less -F -f -R $@"

Disambiguation: Cats, the animals.

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A Linux commandline thingy which outputs a textfile. It's most frequently used to push a file through a pipe so that another program can act on it.

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