Less

Official Download Location

Less (378): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/

Contents of Less

Last checked against version 374.

Less is a file pager, or text viewer. It displays the contents of a file, or stream, and has the ability to scroll. Less has a few features not included in the more pager, such as the ability to scroll backwards.

Less installs the following:

Program Files

less, lessecho and lesskey

Descriptions

Last checked against version 374.

Program file descriptions

less

The less program is a file pager (or text viewer). It displays the contents of a file and has the ability to scroll. Less is an improvement on the common pager called "more". Less has the ability to scroll backwards through files as well and it doesn't need to read the entire file when it starts, which makes it faster when reading large files.

lessecho

lessecho is needed to expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.

lesskey

lesskey is used to specify key bindings for less.

Less Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 358.

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, mv, rm, touch
Grep: egrep, grep
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: expr, hostname, uname
Textutils: cat, tr