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mir (purple hair in real life!!!) on Nostr: less is a read only file viewer. it's a standalone program in the gnu coreutils. the ...

less is a read only file viewer. it's a standalone program in the gnu coreutils. the name is a pun on `more`, an older program that did basic display but was very limited (more can only scroll pagefulls, but less can go line by line and even show color!). "less is more"
if you've ever read a manual page in the terminal, that is less