On Thu 2016-Jul-28 09:05:22 -0600, Anne Mitchell <amitch...@isipp.com> wrote:
… I just call `whois` from BASH and pipe the results into `less`.
I do this too, except I use 'more'. Is there a quantifiable difference
between 'less' and 'more'? Or, perhaps, less is more? ;-)
In a matter of speaking, yes:
---
more(1)
DESCRIPTION
more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This
version is especially primitive. ***Users should realize that less(1)
provides more(1) emulation plus extensive enhancements.***
---
(emphasis mine)
Fom my purposes, `less` provides simpler navigation, and `more` always felt
tailored to always moving forward not back. There is:
b or ^B Skip backwards k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1.
Only works with files, not pipes.
...but `less` just seemed simpler to navigate.
Anne
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Hugo
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