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101 lines
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SUMMARY OF COMMANDS
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Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.
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Notes in parentheses indicate the behavior if N is given.
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h H Display this help.
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q :q :Q ZZ Exit.
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e ^E j ^N CR * Forward one line (or N lines).
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y ^Y k ^K ^P * Backward one line (or N lines).
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f ^F ^V SPACE * Forward one window (or N lines).
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b ^B ESC-v * Backward one window (or N lines).
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z * Forward one window (and set window to N).
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w * Backward one window (and set window to N).
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d ^D * Forward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
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u ^U * Backward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
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F Forward forever; like "tail -f".
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r ^R ^L Repaint screen.
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R Repaint screen, discarding buffered input.
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NOTE: default "window" is the screen height.
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default "half-window" is half of the screen height.
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/pattern * Search forward for (N-th) matching line.
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?pattern * Search backward for (N-th) matching line.
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NOTE: search commands may be modified by one or more of:
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! search for NON-matching lines.
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* search multiple files.
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@ start search at first file (for /) or last file (for ?).
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n * Repeat previous search (for N-th occurrence).
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N * Repeat previous search in reverse direction.
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ESC-n * Repeat previous search, spanning files.
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ESC-N * Repeat previous search, reverse dir. & spanning files.
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g < ESC-< * Go to first line in file (or line N).
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G > ESC-> * Go to last line in file (or line N).
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p % * Go to beginning of file (or N percent into file).
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{ * Go to the } matching the (N-th) { in the top line.
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} * Go to the { matching the (N-th) } in the bottom line.
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( * Go to the ) matching the (N-th) ( in the top line.
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) * Go to the ( matching the (N-th) ) in the bottom line.
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[ * Go to the ] matching the (N-th) [ in the top line.
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] * Go to the [ matching the (N-th) ] in the bottom line.
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ESC-^F <c1> <c2> * Go to the c1 matching the (N-th) c2 in the top line
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ESC-^B <c1> <c2> * Go to the c2 matching the (N-th) c1 in the bottom line.
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m<letter> Mark the current position with <letter>.
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'<letter> Go to a previously marked position.
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'' Go to the previous position.
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^X^X Same as '.
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E [file] Examine a new file.
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:e ^X^V Same as E.
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:n * Examine the (N-th) next file from the command line.
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:p * Examine the (N-th) previous file from the command line.
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= ^G :f Print current file name.
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V Print version number of "less".
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-<flag> Toggle a command line flag [see FLAGS below].
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_<flag> Display the setting of a command line flag.
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+cmd Execute the less cmd each time a new file is examined.
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FLAGS
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Most flags may be changed either on the command line,
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or from within less by using the - command.
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-? Display help (from command line).
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-a Set forward search starting location.
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-b [N] Number of buffers.
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-B Automatically allocate buffers.
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-c -C Repaint by scrolling/clearing.
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-d Dumb terminal.
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-e -E Quit at end of file.
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-f Force open non-regular files.
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-h [N] Backward scroll limit.
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-i Ignore case in searches.
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-j [N] Screen position of target lines.
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-k [file] Use a lesskey file.
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-m -M Set prompt style.
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-n -N Use line numbers.
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-o [file] Log file.
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-O [file] Log file (unconditionally overwrite).
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-p [pattern] Start at pattern (from command line).
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-P [prompt] Define new prompt.
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-q -Q Quiet the terminal bell.
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-r Translate control characters.
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-s Squeeze multiple blank lines.
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-S Chop long lines.
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-t [tag] Find a tag.
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-T [tagsfile] Use an alternate tags file.
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-u -U Change handling of backspaces.
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-w Display ~ for lines after end-of-file.
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-x [N] Set tab stops.
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-y [N] Forward scroll limit.
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-z [N] Set size of window.
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