Terminal pager

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. 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. [http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/more.1.php manpage of more] ] less is a more advanced pager that allows movement forward and backward, and contains extra functions such as search. [http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/less.1.php manpage of less] ]

Some programs incorporate their own paging function, for example bash's tab completion function. [http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/bash-2.05a/html_node/bashref_104.html#SEC111 Bash Programmable Completion Builtins] ]

Examples

*more
*less
*pg [ [http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/pg.1.php manpage of pg] ]
*most [ [http://linux.die.net/man/1/most manpage of most] ]

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