Category: Advanced – Command Line • Est. reading time: 1 minute
The less command lets you read a text file one screen at a time, which is far easier than the cat command for large files. It opens instantly because it does not load the whole file at once.
Open a file
less textFile.txtInside less: press Space or the arrow keys to move, type /word to search for text, and press q to quit.
Pipe another command’s output into less
cat largeFile.txt | lessSee all the keys
less --helpRelated: to see just the top of a file, use the head command.
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