'less' Command

The navigation keys in 'less' command are similar to Vim editor. Let's look at few navigation commands. Forward & backward pattern search Screen navigation Working with multiple files   Forward & backward pattern search / - search for a pattern which will take you to the next occurrence ? - search for a pattern which will take you to the previous occurrence n - for next match in forward (using /) or backward direction (using ?) N - for next match in backward (using /) or forward direction (using ?)   Screen navigation j - navigate one line down k - navigate one line up h - navigate one character left l - navigate one character right w - navigate one word right b - navigate one word left G - End of file g - Beginning of file q - quit less pager F - Simulate 'tail -f' inside less pager (this might come very handy, because when you open a file using less command, any content that is being appended will not be displayed automatically. Using 'F' command, we can tail the active file which is similar to 'tail -f'. By pressing [Ctrl+C], you will be back to the normal less pager) [Ctrl + F] - forward one window [Ctrl + B] - backward one window [Ctrl + D] - forward half window [Ctrl + U] - backward half window [Ctrl + G] - show the current file name along with line, byte and percentage statistics 10j - 10 lines forward 10k - 10 lines backward v - toggle between the vi editor back and forth h - summary of less commands &pattern - display only the matching lines, not all   Working with multiple files   Multiple files can be opened by passing file names as arguments as shown below:   # less file1 file2   While viewing file1, use :e to open another file as shown below:   # less file1 :e file2   Navigate between the files using: :n - go to the next file :p - go to the previous file   [ Top ]