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Why less when you can have more? (Pagers on *Nix)
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Why do Linux people and most programs -- Ruby commands, for instance -- use instead of . Isn't more bigger, nicer, and better? What is the advantage to ?
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Fix for: Why less when you can have more? (Pagers on *Nix)
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Because less is more than more... less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a vari…
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