less.md

less

less package.

Best pager available on all distributions.

Advantages over Vim:

• loads faster

Disadvantages over Vim:

• much less powerful

Inputs:

• /: search forward

• n: repeat last search

• d: down one page

• u: up one page

• g: top of document

• G: bottom of document

• g: top of document

• <ENTER>: down one line

• -S : toggle line wrapping

  less "$f"
  printf 'ab\ncd\n' | less
  

• -R : interpret ANSI color codes

  Rubbish:

  ls --color | less
  

  Colors!:

  ls --color | less -R
  

• -X: keep last view of less visible on the terminal after quitting.

  http://askubuntu.com/questions/429781/less-output-does-not-show-output-in-terminal-after-quitting-it