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