A.27. Less

A.27.1. Official Download Location

Less (381): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/

A.27.2. Contents of Less

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.

Installed programs: less, lessecho and lesskey

A.27.3.

A.27.4. Short descriptions

less is a file viewer or pager. It displays the contents of the given file, letting you scroll around, find strings, and jump to marks.

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

lesskey is used to specify the key bindings for less.

A.27.5.

A.27.6. Less Installation Dependencies

Less depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.