About:
Less is a program similar to more, i.e. a terminal based program for viewing text files and the output from other programs. Less offers many features beyond those that more does. For instance, it allows backward movement in the files as well as forward.

Author:
Gürkan [contact developer]

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8.81/10.00 (9 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html
Zip:
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html
Changelog:
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.418.html
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/less
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/less/
Mirror site:
http://www.gnu.org/software/less/less.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	418	27-Jan-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated less package fixes security issue
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Jan 26th 2005 08:09
  

 Comments

[»] lesspipe.sh filters
by Ed Avis - Jan 18th 2003 01:09:57

One of the features of less is piping the file to be viewed through a filter program (usually called lesspipe.sh) before viewing it. This means that gzipped files can be decompressed, troff source formatted, HTML rendered into plain text, and so on. Typically lesspipe.sh is a shell script which runs different filters depending on the input filename.

The standard distribution of less does not include a lesspipe.sh, but there is one included in the less package from Red Hat (and related distributions) and another with Slackware. Wolfgang Friebel's lesspipe.sh is unusual in that it uses file(1) to look at the file's contents.

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Ed Avis

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