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. It can show you the text inside a compressed archive (e.g. download some text-file.xml.gz and it'll show you the xml file). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. I don't think it's pure coincidence that "officialdom" sounds the same as "official dumb." _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
