A terminal pager, paging program or simply pager is a computer program used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. Some, but not all, pagers allow movement up a file.1 A popular cross-platform terminal pager is more, which can move forwards and backwards in text files but cannot move backwards in pipes.2 less is a more advanced pager that allows movement forward and backward, and contains extra functions such as search.3
Some programs incorporate their own paging function, for example bash's tab completion function.4
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References
- "Debian: An overview of file paging applications".
- manpage of more
- manpage of less
- "Bash Reference Manual: Programmable Completion Builtins". gnu.org.
- "View-Mode".
- "most(1): browse/page through text file - Linux man page". die.net.
- ""PG" from linuxmanpages.com". Archived from the original on 5 May 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
- Das, Sumitabha (2012). Your UNIX/Linux: The Ultimate Guide (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 31–33, 36, 53, 76–78, 89, 172, 717, 729. ISBN 978-0-07-337620-2.
- Koch, Jeff (1999). Practical UNIX. Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Pub. ISBN 0-585-33105-7. OCLC 45842916.