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- Linux command which makes a file's contents or a command's output more navigable.
- up and down arrows to proceed or recede[1] line-by-line
- left and right arrows to scroll right and left
- space bar/page down to move forward one page
- page up/b to move back one page
- Commands
-S- Don't wrap data
-x<number>- How wide each column should be
- e.g.,
-x20
Metadata
Sources
How to Use the less Command in Linux with Examples
How weird is it that these words aren't spelled more similarly? According to etymonline, they share a root, so I wonder when that shift from "procede" to "proceed" occurred ↩︎