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RHTopics · Guest

The less pager shell command is a useful tool for viewing text files from the command line.

With its ability to move up and down in a text file, it is more capable than the included more command.

It would be good to see it included in Puppy Linux.

Thanks

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

I agree. From what I've gathered, it's superior in every way. Razz

<But, MORE is functional, so that works for most, according to the philosophy that less isn't allways worse than more, and more isn't always better... OMG, what a word game...>

rarsa · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 14:00 Post_subject:

Well RHTopics and Bancobusto. It just happens that less has already been packaged for puppy:

It's in the DotPup Contributions page along with many other fine applications.

I would suggest you to browse that page and the GuestToo DotPups pages to find ot what else is there.

RHTopics · Guest

In thinking about your reply, I did some research into using an alternative to the less command.

The more command is part of the busybox application. Looking at the help for BusyBox, it is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix utilities into a single executable. This single executable comes in a small size of only 296k bytes, while the less command by itself in other linux distros is over 120k. So it is understandable that the less command is not included.

My alternative was to add the following alias command in /etc/profile:

RHTopics · Guest

rarsa, Your reply got posted while I was editing a reply to Bancobusto.

I will check out the DotPup Contributions page.

Thanks