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. > This does not apply. > > "more" is the traditional UCB/Berkeley "more" command. It is covered > by POSIX and supposed to be portable across POSIX-compatible and > *NIXish OS. ... snip ... ah, i had totally overlooked the POSIX compliance aspect of this, thanks for pointing that out. so for reference, there is the definition of an LSB conforming implementation: http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/command.html and the alleged POSIX utilities: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/utilities.html both of which refer to "more" but not to "less". ok, that's a useful distinguishing feature. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
