Terminal pager
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A terminal pager, or paging program, 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. [1][2][3] Some, but not all, pagers allow movement up a file. A popular cross-platform terminal pager is more. More can move forwards and backwards in text files but cannot move backwards in pipes.[4] less is a more advanced pager that allows movement forward and backward, and contains extra functions such as search.[5]
Some programs incorporate their own paging function, for example bash's tab completion function.[6]
Examples
References
- ^ "An overview of file paging applications".
- ^ "3.9. Pipes and Pagers".
- ^ "10.2 Pagers: more, less, and most".
- ^ manpage of more
- ^ manpage of less
- ^ "Bash Reference Manual: Programmable Completion Builtins". gnu.org.
- ^ manpage of pg
- ^ "most(1): browse/page through text file - Linux man page". die.net.
- ^ "View-Mode".
- ^ "A "new" file pager: view".
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