topic Re: more or less in Operating System - HP-UX

more or less

CPHVF-U Guard — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:40:19 GMT

If I use less instead of more when I search in a text file I get highlighting words. How do I get these features when I use more. ??

Brgds
Jan

Re: more or less

Michael Tully — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:49:57 GMT

Hi,

I've never used 'less', but you could have a look at this offering from the porting centre.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/more-1.32/readme.html

-Michael

Re: more or less

Deepak Extross — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:51:44 GMT

'less' has more and better features than 'more'.
Reverse Scrolling after searching for a pattern, for example.
You may not be able to find an equivalent in 'more' for every feature that 'less' offers.
Why use 'more' when you can use 'less'? :-)

Re: more or less

Michael Tully — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:53:47 GMT

I remember an old saying about this:

less is more and more is less.....

Re: more or less

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 10:32:11 GMT

More recent versions of less support PCRE!

If you recompile less yourself, and choose to use PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), something you have installed on your system - and if not, do so yesterday :) - Perl's regex power lays at your feet in less.

PCRE: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-3.9.tar.gz
less: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-374.tar.gz

Re: more or less

Roger Baptiste — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:11:11 GMT

You get more features by using less, whereas you get less features by using more.

HTH ;-)
-raj