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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 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.

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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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