Rather than ask for your favorite, lets just list them off. What are the more useful commands inside less? Personally, I use: / (search forward) ? (search backwards) F (enable tail -f like be...

Jun 26, 2017 · 94 less +F filename will go to the end and continually load the latest contents of the file. From less man page: F Scroll forward, and keep trying to read when the end of file is reached. …

I would like to open up a file using less, and have it automatically scroll the file similar to tail -f. I know that I can do less file, and then hit Shift-F to forward forever; like tail -f. I n...

To quit less, type q. Also, check out man less, or type h from within less for some more, useful bits of information. In general, assuming man has been properly installed, man xyz will tell you how to use …

21 You can start less and ignore case by passing the -i option. This ignores case unless the search string has an upper-case character. Here is the summary on less from the Ubuntu help page: -i or - …

Nov 4, 2021 · Less only loads the visible part of the file and a little before and after it, so its remains quick for larger files but only searches in the part that is loaded. If you want to search over the whole …

I am using Ubuntu, and I would like to be able to type less compressed_text_file.gz and page the contents of the text file in uncompressed form. Is there a way to do this?

Aug 24, 2011 · Can I get less not to monochrome its output? E.g., the output from git diff is colored, but git diff | less is not.

Jan 15, 2015 · Is there a way I can grep -v inside of less? Rather than having to do egrep -v "event text|something else|the other thing|foo|bar" Events.log | less It strikes me as a useful feature when …

They followed the syntax of the C language, which was very popular in Unix circles. Thus they used C's operators: == for equality, <= for less-or-equal, etc. Unix Seventh Edition didn't have arithmetic …