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Jan 172010
 

Difference between more and less command

Answer:

Both the less and more help you to display the contents of a given file one screen at a time.

The differences:

  1. more is available on all UNIX system, while less is not
  2. less is more flexible, such as allow to scroll backward

If you are using modern Linux, you can always use less to replace more.

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