On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:05, you wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:49, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > weren't you listening in the newbie talk i gave? > > Well it seems that I will have to do some more reading to understand "most" > things like "grep", "more" or "less" grep is an acronym Global Regular Expression Print. Translating:- Global - The whole of the file. Regular Expression - A defined pattern of characters. Print - Program Output to the Standard Output.
"less", "more" and "most" are a play on words. These programs are all intended to display screen-fulls of text files. The original one is "more", so called because you press the space-bar to get "more" text displayed. Also the return key displays another line. That quirky sense of humour which is so common in Unix programming circles, resulted in a much improved "more" being called "less". "less" adds the feature which allows one to browse up and down the file using the up and down arrows, as well as the page-up and page-down keys. "most" is a totally over the top feature bloat implementation which uses a set of key-bindings and screen layout very similar to the text-only web browser called lynx. hth -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
