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# Less

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Less-381 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Less (381):
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

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## 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.

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## Less Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 358.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, expr, hostname, install, mv, rm, touch, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Grep: egrep, grep
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Ncurses: (libraries)
Make: make
Sed: sed

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