Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent:
> the obvious difference between the two, apart from the end of screen
> pause, if that less allows scrolling backwards and forwards with PgUp
> and PgDn, more doesn't.
Less can parse some files, and show you more than just plain text.
On 18/2/18 7:49 pm, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent:
currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later
this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and
"less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall th
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering
> > later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the
> > "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably.
> Th
Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent:
> currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later
> this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and
> "less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall that
> *ever* being the case
M
On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later
this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and
"less" commands can be used interchangeably.
This does not apply.
"more" is the traditional UCB/Berkeley "m
currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later
this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and
"less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall that
*ever* being the case, given that more is part of util-linux, and less
is a separate package, a
