most: get the most out of commandline file reading

Everyone here should have heard of moreif not less atleast. Most distributions now a days use less as default pager for various tasks. You can check this by
echo $PAGER
and chances are you would see less.

Examples of tools using less is the man command. This should man pages with less. What does that mean? That means that you can actually use the same shortcuts are option with man pages that you use in less like using / to search and etc. Problem with less is that it doesn’t support coloring as default and some other cool stuff.

Solution is using most. Install it using:

apt-get install most

or use aptitude. After its installed you can set PAGER environment variable in your home directory configuration files such as profile or your shell specific configs say .bashrc or global configurations files in /etc.

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