[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue Jun 3 13:35:05 2008
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
You beat me to it. I was about to post who uses "more" anymore?
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It is less and less nowadays.
more or less :)
I stopped using more(1) more than 6 years ago.
my exp. see below.
It can also display percentages, move back one page, half page or few
lines at a time , turn pattern based search on and off and so on.
and a whole lot more, I still keep learning things about it.
It is only the really really old UNIX hackers that still are stuck
with more(1).
Not really. Circa 1986/7, is when I first came across "less" @ Bell
Labs on all the Unix systems and started using it. It became very
popular amongst all of the "really really old UNIX hackers" (as Girish
puts it) in a short time. Nobody used it except for legacy apps that
needed it for pagination of text output, it was frustrating to go
through the output given that we were used to "less."
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Arun Khan
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