[wellylug] cat README | more ???

[jumbophut]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:02:53 +1300, Nick Jensen wrote:
> This is just a quick side question to the "Gentoo - how do you
> install it?" thread - Cliff suggested reading the README by: `cat
> README | more`
> Why would you pipe the output of `cat README` through more, instead
> of just running `more README`? And why use more at all, when you can
> use less?

Because:

> cat file
Dang, too long to fit on one screen
> [up-arrow]|less
That's better.

Alternatively...

> cat file
Dang, too long to fit on one screen
> less file
I just wasted four keystrokes!

:-)

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')