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Less makes sense to me. When a command spits out too much text to fit on your screen, you pipe it to less to show you less at once.

• sjmulder 8y ago
  Fair enough, but more also made sense to me because I assumed (apparently rightly) that its name refers to the "-- More --" prompt at the end of each screenful.
• copperx 8y ago
  No. The command would be called called fewer (e.g., show me fewer lines) if that was the case.