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Ask HN: Do you use more or less in shell?
What is the reasoning behind using one or the other?
- mrzool 10y agoSee this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81129/what-are-the-differences-between-most-more-and-less/81131 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81129/what-are-the-d... TL;DR: Use less. As a side note, I've never seen anyone actually using more.
- Davidbrcz 10y agomore is a basic pager, which allows you to scroll downwards, one page at a time. Only downwards. less is also a pager, but has addition functionality to scroll upwards and downwards through the input, in addition to several other extensions. http://superuser.com/questions/310137/less-is-more-is-more-less-im-so-confused http://superuser.com/questions/310137/less-is-more-is-more-l... TL;DR : Use less