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-.TH LESS 1 "Version 416: 22 Nov 2007"
-.SH NAME
-less \- opposite of more
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B "less \-?"
-.br
-.B "less \-\-help"
-.br
-.B "less \-V"
-.br
-.B "less \-\-version"
-.br
-.B "less [\-[+]aBcCdeEfFgGiIJKLmMnNqQrRsSuUVwWX~]"
-.br
-.B " [\-b \fIspace\fP] [\-h \fIlines\fP] [\-j \fIline\fP] [\-k \fIkeyfile\fP]"
-.br
-.B " [\-{oO} \fIlogfile\fP] [\-p \fIpattern\fP] [\-P \fIprompt\fP] [\-t \fItag\fP]"
-.br
-.B " [\-T \fItagsfile\fP] [\-x \fItab\fP,...] [\-y \fIlines\fP] [\-[z] \fIlines\fP]"
-.br
-.B " [\-# \fIshift\fP] [+[+]\fIcmd\fP] [\-\-] [\fIfilename\fP]..."
-.br
-(See the OPTIONS section for alternate option syntax with long option names.)
-
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.I Less
-is a program similar to
-.I more
-(1), but which allows backward movement
-in the file as well as forward movement.
-Also,
-.I less
-does not have to read the entire input file before starting,
-so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like
-.I vi
-(1).
-.I Less
-uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems),
-so it can run on a variety of terminals.
-There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals.
-(On a hardcopy terminal, lines which should be printed at the top
-of the screen are prefixed with a caret.)
-.PP
-Commands are based on both
-.I more
-and
-.I vi.
-Commands may be preceded by a decimal number,
-called N in the descriptions below.
-The number is used by some commands, as indicated.
-
-.SH COMMANDS
-In the following descriptions, ^X means control-X.
-ESC stands for the ESCAPE key; for example ESC-v means the
-two character sequence "ESCAPE", then "v".
-.IP "h or H"
-Help: display a summary of these commands.
-If you forget all the other commands, remember this one.
-.IP "SPACE or ^V or f or ^F"
-Scroll forward N lines, default one window (see option \-z below).
-If N is more than the screen size, only the final screenful is displayed.
-Warning: some systems use ^V as a special literalization character.
-.IP "z"
-Like SPACE, but if N is specified, it becomes the new window size.
-.IP "ESC-SPACE"
-Like SPACE, but scrolls a full screenful, even if it reaches
-end-of-file in the process.
-.IP "RETURN or ^N or e or ^E or j or ^J"
-Scroll forward N lines, default 1.
-The entire N lines are displayed, even if N is more than the screen size.
-.IP "d or ^D"
-Scroll forward N lines, default one half of the screen size.
-If N is specified, it becomes the new default for
-subsequent d and u commands.
-.IP "b or ^B or ESC-v"
-Scroll backward N lines, default one window (see option \-z below).
-If N is more than the screen size, only the final screenful is displayed.
-.IP "w"
-Like ESC-v, but if N is specified, it becomes the new window size.
-.IP "y or ^Y or ^P or k or ^K"
-Scroll backward N lines, default 1.
-The entire N lines are displayed, even if N is more than the screen size.
-Warning: some systems use ^Y as a special job control character.
-.IP "u or ^U"
-Scroll backward N lines, default one half of the screen size.
-If N is specified, it becomes the new default for
-subsequent d and u commands.
-.IP "ESC-) or RIGHTARROW"
-Scroll horizontally right N characters, default half the screen width
-(see the \-# option).
-If a number N is specified, it becomes the default for future RIGHTARROW
-and LEFTARROW commands.
-While the text is scrolled, it acts as though the \-S option
-(chop lines) were in effect.
-.IP "ESC-( or LEFTARROW"
-Scroll horizontally left N characters, default half the screen width
-(see the \-# option).
-If a number N is specified, it becomes the default for future RIGHTARROW
-and LEFTARROW commands.
-.IP "r or ^R or ^L"
-Repaint the screen.
-.IP R
-Repaint the screen, discarding any buffered input.
-Useful if the file is changing while it is being viewed.
-.IP "F"
-Scroll forward, and keep trying to read when the
-end of file is reached.
-Normally this command would be used when already at the end of the file.
-It is a way to monitor the tail of a file which is growing
-while it is being viewed.
-(The behavior is similar to the "tail \-f" command.)
-.IP "g or < or ESC-<"
-Go to line N in the file, default 1 (beginning of file).
-(Warning: this may be slow if N is large.)
-.IP "G or > or ESC->"
-Go to line N in the file, default the end of the file.
-(Warning: this may be slow if N is large,
-or if N is not specified and
-standard input, rather than a file, is being read.)
-.IP "p or %"
-Go to a position N percent into the file.
-N should be between 0 and 100, and may contain a decimal point.
-.IP "P"
-Go to the line containing byte offset N in the file.
-.IP "{"
-If a left curly bracket appears in the top line displayed
-on the screen,
-the { command will go to the matching right curly bracket.
-The matching right curly bracket is positioned on the bottom
-line of the screen.
-If there is more than one left curly bracket on the top line,
-a number N may be used to specify the N-th bracket on the line.
-.IP "}"
-If a right curly bracket appears in the bottom line displayed
-on the screen,
-the } command will go to the matching left curly bracket.
-The matching left curly bracket is positioned on the top
-line of the screen.
-If there is more than one right curly bracket on the top line,
-a number N may be used to specify the N-th bracket on the line.
-.IP "("
-Like {, but applies to parentheses rather than curly brackets.
-.IP ")"
-Like }, but applies to parentheses rather than curly brackets.
-.IP "["
-Like {, but applies to square brackets rather than curly brackets.
-.IP "]"
-Like }, but applies to square brackets rather than curly brackets.
-.IP "ESC-^F"
-Followed by two characters,
-acts like {, but uses the two characters as open and close brackets,
-respectively.
-For example, "ESC ^F < >" could be used to
-go forward to the > which matches the < in the top displayed line.
-.IP "ESC-^B"
-Followed by two characters,
-acts like }, but uses the two characters as open and close brackets,
-respectively.
-For example, "ESC ^B < >" could be used to
-go backward to the < which matches the > in the bottom displayed line.
-.IP m
-Followed by any lowercase letter,
-marks the current position with that letter.
-.IP "'"
-(Single quote.)
-Followed by any lowercase letter, returns to the position which
-was previously marked with that letter.
-Followed by another single quote, returns to the position at
-which the last "large" movement command was executed.
-Followed by a ^ or $, jumps to the beginning or end of the
-file respectively.
-Marks are preserved when a new file is examined,
-so the ' command can be used to switch between input files.
-.IP "^X^X"
-Same as single quote.
-.IP /pattern
-Search forward in the file for the N-th line containing the pattern.
-N defaults to 1.
-The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by
-the regular expression library supplied by your system.
-The search starts at the second line displayed
-(but see the \-a and \-j options, which change this).
-.sp
-Certain characters are special
-if entered at the beginning of the pattern;
-they modify the type of search rather than become part of the pattern:
-.RS
-.IP "^N or !"
-Search for lines which do NOT match the pattern.
-.IP "^E or *"
-Search multiple files.
-That is, if the search reaches the END of the current file
-without finding a match,
-the search continues in the next file in the command line list.
-.IP "^F or @"
-Begin the search at the first line of the FIRST file
-in the command line list,
-regardless of what is currently displayed on the screen
-or the settings of the \-a or \-j options.
-.IP "^K"
-Highlight any text which matches the pattern on the current screen,
-but don't move to the first match (KEEP current position).
-.IP "^R"
-Don't interpret regular expression metacharacters;
-that is, do a simple textual comparison.
-.RE
-.IP ?pattern
-Search backward in the file for the N-th line containing the pattern.
-The search starts at the line immediately before the top line displayed.
-.sp
-Certain characters are special as in the / command:
-.RS
-.IP "^N or !"
-Search for lines which do NOT match the pattern.
-.IP "^E or *"
-Search multiple files.
-That is, if the search reaches the beginning of the current file
-without finding a match,
-the search continues in the previous file in the command line list.
-.IP "^F or @"
-Begin the search at the last line of the last file
-in the command line list,
-regardless of what is currently displayed on the screen
-or the settings of the \-a or \-j options.
-.IP "^K"
-As in forward searches.
-.IP "^R"
-As in forward searches.
-.RE
-.IP "ESC-/pattern"
-Same as "/*".
-.IP "ESC-?pattern"
-Same as "?*".
-.IP n
-Repeat previous search, for N-th line containing the last pattern.
-If the previous search was modified by ^N, the search is made for the
-N-th line NOT containing the pattern.
-If the previous search was modified by ^E, the search continues
-in the next (or previous) file if not satisfied in the current file.
-If the previous search was modified by ^R, the search is done
-without using regular expressions.
-There is no effect if the previous search was modified by ^F or ^K.
-.IP N
-Repeat previous search, but in the reverse direction.
-.IP "ESC-n"
-Repeat previous search, but crossing file boundaries.
-The effect is as if the previous search were modified by *.
-.IP "ESC-N"
-Repeat previous search, but in the reverse direction
-and crossing file boundaries.
-.IP "ESC-u"
-Undo search highlighting.
-Turn off highlighting of strings matching the current search pattern.
-If highlighting is already off because of a previous ESC-u command,
-turn highlighting back on.
-Any search command will also turn highlighting back on.
-(Highlighting can also be disabled by toggling the \-G option;
-in that case search commands do not turn highlighting back on.)
-.IP ":e [filename]"
-Examine a new file.
-If the filename is missing, the "current" file (see the :n and :p commands
-below) from the list of files in the command line is re-examined.
-A percent sign (%) in the filename is replaced by the name of the
-current file.
-A pound sign (#) is replaced by the name of the previously examined file.
-However, two consecutive percent signs are simply
-replaced with a single percent sign.
-This allows you to enter a filename that contains a percent sign
-in the name.
-Similarly, two consecutive pound signs are replaced with a single pound sign.
-The filename is inserted into the command line list of files
-so that it can be seen by subsequent :n and :p commands.
-If the filename consists of several files, they are all inserted into
-the list of files and the first one is examined.
-If the filename contains one or more spaces,
-the entire filename should be enclosed in double quotes
-(also see the \-" option).
-.IP "^X^V or E"
-Same as :e.
-Warning: some systems use ^V as a special literalization character.
-On such systems, you may not be able to use ^V.
-.IP ":n"
-Examine the next file (from the list of files given in the command line).
-If a number N is specified, the N-th next file is examined.
-.IP ":p"
-Examine the previous file in the command line list.
-If a number N is specified, the N-th previous file is examined.
-.IP ":x"
-Examine the first file in the command line list.
-If a number N is specified, the N-th file in the list is examined.
-.IP ":d"
-Remove the current file from the list of files.
-.IP "t"
-Go to the next tag, if there were more than one matches for the current tag.
-See the \-t option for more details about tags.
-.IP "T"
-Go to the previous tag, if there were more than one matches for the current tag.
-.IP "= or ^G or :f"
-Prints some information about the file being viewed,
-including its name
-and the line number and byte offset of the bottom line being displayed.
-If possible, it also prints the length of the file,
-the number of lines in the file
-and the percent of the file above the last displayed line.
-.IP \-
-Followed by one of the command line option letters (see OPTIONS below),
-this will change the setting of that option
-and print a message describing the new setting.
-If a ^P (CONTROL-P) is entered immediately after the dash,
-the setting of the option is changed but no message is printed.
-If the option letter has a numeric value (such as \-b or \-h),
-or a string value (such as \-P or \-t),
-a new value may be entered after the option letter.
-If no new value is entered, a message describing
-the current setting is printed and nothing is changed.
-.IP \-\-
-Like the \- command, but takes a long option name (see OPTIONS below)
-rather than a single option letter.
-You must press RETURN after typing the option name.
-A ^P immediately after the second dash suppresses printing of a
-message describing the new setting, as in the \- command.
-.IP \-+
-Followed by one of the command line option letters
-this will reset the option to its default setting
-and print a message describing the new setting.
-(The "\-+\fIX\fP" command does the same thing
-as "\-+\fIX\fP" on the command line.)
-This does not work for string-valued options.
-.IP \-\-+
-Like the \-+ command, but takes a long option name
-rather than a single option letter.
-.IP \-!
-Followed by one of the command line option letters,
-this will reset the option to the "opposite" of its default setting
-and print a message describing the new setting.
-This does not work for numeric or string-valued options.
-.IP \-\-!
-Like the \-! command, but takes a long option name
-rather than a single option letter.
-.IP _
-(Underscore.)
-Followed by one of the command line option letters,
-this will print a message describing the current setting of that option.
-The setting of the option is not changed.
-.IP __
-(Double underscore.)
-Like the _ (underscore) command, but takes a long option name
-rather than a single option letter.
-You must press RETURN after typing the option name.
-.IP +cmd
-Causes the specified cmd to be executed each time a new file is examined.
-For example, +G causes
-.I less
-to initially display each file starting at the end
-rather than the beginning.
-.IP V
-Prints the version number of
-.I less
-being run.
-.IP "q or Q or :q or :Q or ZZ"
-Exits
-.I less.
-.PP
-The following
-four
-commands may or may not be valid, depending on your particular installation.
-.PP
-.IP v
-Invokes an editor to edit the current file being viewed.
-The editor is taken from the environment variable VISUAL if defined,
-or EDITOR if VISUAL is not defined,
-or defaults to "vi" if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR is defined.
-See also the discussion of LESSEDIT under the section on PROMPTS below.
-.IP "! shell-command"
-Invokes a shell to run the shell-command given.
-A percent sign (%) in the command is replaced by the name of the
-current file.
-A pound sign (#) is replaced by the name of the previously examined file.
-"!!" repeats the last shell command.
-"!" with no shell command simply invokes a shell.
-On Unix systems, the shell is taken from the environment variable SHELL,
-or defaults to "sh".
-On MS-DOS and OS/2 systems, the shell is the normal command processor.
-.IP "| <m> shell-command"
-<m> represents any mark letter.
-Pipes a section of the input file to the given shell command.
-The section of the file to be piped is between the first line on
-the current screen and the position marked by the letter.
-<m> may also be ^ or $ to indicate beginning or end of file respectively.
-If <m> is . or newline, the current screen is piped.
-.IP "s filename"
-Save the input to a file.
-This only works if the input is a pipe, not an ordinary file.
-.PP
-.SH OPTIONS
-Command line options are described below.
-Most options may be changed while
-.I less
-is running, via the "\-" command.
-.PP
-Most options may be given in one of two forms:
-either a dash followed by a single letter,
-or two dashes followed by a long option name.
-A long option name may be abbreviated as long as
-the abbreviation is unambiguous.
-For example, \-\-quit-at-eof may be abbreviated \-\-quit, but not
---qui, since both \-\-quit-at-eof and \-\-quiet begin with \-\-qui.
-Some long option names are in uppercase, such as \-\-QUIT-AT-EOF, as
-distinct from \-\-quit-at-eof.
-Such option names need only have their first letter capitalized;
-the remainder of the name may be in either case.
-For example, \-\-Quit-at-eof is equivalent to \-\-QUIT-AT-EOF.
-.PP
-Options are also taken from the environment variable "LESS".
-For example,
-to avoid typing "less \-options ..." each time
-.I less
-is invoked, you might tell
-.I csh:
-.sp
-setenv LESS "-options"
-.sp
-or if you use
-.I sh:
-.sp
-LESS="-options"; export LESS
-.sp
-On MS-DOS, you don't need the quotes, but you should replace any
-percent signs in the options string by double percent signs.
-.sp
-The environment variable is parsed before the command line,
-so command line options override the LESS environment variable.
-If an option appears in the LESS variable, it can be reset
-to its default value on the command line by beginning the command
-line option with "\-+".
-.sp
-For options like \-P or \-D which take a following string,
-a dollar sign ($) must be used to signal the end of the string.
-For example, to set two \-D options on MS-DOS, you must have
-a dollar sign between them, like this:
-.sp
-LESS="-Dn9.1$-Ds4.1"
-.sp
-.IP "\-? or \-\-help"
-This option displays a summary of the commands accepted by
-.I less
-(the same as the h command).
-(Depending on how your shell interprets the question mark,
-it may be necessary to quote the question mark, thus: "\-\e?".)
-.IP "\-a or \-\-search-skip-screen"
-Causes searches to start after the last line
-displayed on the screen,
-thus skipping all lines displayed on the screen.
-By default, searches start at the second line on the screen
-(or after the last found line; see the \-j option).
-.IP "\-b\fIn\fP or \-\-buffers=\fIn\fP"
-Specifies the amount of buffer space
-.I less
-will use for each file, in units of kilobytes (1024 bytes).
-By default 64K of buffer space is used for each file
-(unless the file is a pipe; see the \-B option).
-The \-b option specifies instead that \fIn\fP kilobytes of
-buffer space should be used for each file.
-If \fIn\fP is \-1, buffer space is unlimited; that is,
-the entire file can be read into memory.
-.IP "\-B or \-\-auto-buffers"
-By default, when data is read from a pipe,
-buffers are allocated automatically as needed.
-If a large amount of data is read from the pipe, this can cause
-a large amount of memory to be allocated.
-The \-B option disables this automatic allocation of buffers for pipes,
-so that only 64K
-(or the amount of space specified by the \-b option)
-is used for the pipe.
-Warning: use of \-B can result in erroneous display, since only the
-most recently viewed part of the piped data is kept in memory;
-any earlier data is lost.
-.IP "\-c or \-\-clear-screen"
-Causes full screen repaints to be painted from the top line down.
-By default,
-full screen repaints are done by scrolling from the bottom of the screen.
-.IP "\-C or \-\-CLEAR-SCREEN"
-Same as \-c, for compatibility with older versions of
-.I less.
-.IP "\-d or \-\-dumb"
-The \-d option suppresses the error message
-normally displayed if the terminal is dumb;
-that is, lacks some important capability,
-such as the ability to clear the screen or scroll backward.
-The \-d option does not otherwise change the behavior of
-.I less
-on a dumb terminal.
-.IP "\-D\fBx\fP\fIcolor\fP or \-\-color=\fBx\fP\fIcolor\fP"
-[MS-DOS only]
-Sets the color of the text displayed.
-\fBx\fP is a single character which selects the type of text whose color is
-being set: n=normal, s=standout, d=bold, u=underlined, k=blink.
-\fIcolor\fP is a pair of numbers separated by a period.
-The first number selects the foreground color and the second selects
-the background color of the text.
-A single number \fIN\fP is the same as \fIN.0\fP.
-.IP "\-e or \-\-quit-at-eof"
-Causes
-.I less
-to automatically exit
-the second time it reaches end-of-file.
-By default, the only way to exit
-.I less
-is via the "q" command.
-.IP "\-E or \-\-QUIT-AT-EOF"
-Causes
-.I less
-to automatically exit the first time it reaches end-of-file.
-.IP "\-f or \-\-force"
-Forces non-regular files to be opened.
-(A non-regular file is a directory or a device special file.)
-Also suppresses the warning message when a binary file is opened.
-By default,
-.I less
-will refuse to open non-regular files.
-Note that some operating systems will not allow directories
-to be read, even if \-f is set.
-.IP "\-F or \-\-quit-if-one-screen"
-Causes
-.I less
-to automatically exit
-if the entire file can be displayed on the first screen.
-.IP "\-g or \-\-hilite-search"
-Normally,
-.I less
-will highlight ALL strings which match the last search command.
-The \-g option changes this behavior to highlight only the particular string
-which was found by the last search command.
-This can cause
-.I less
-to run somewhat faster than the default.
-.IP "\-G or \-\-HILITE-SEARCH"
-The \-G option suppresses all highlighting of strings found by search commands.
-.IP "\-h\fIn\fP or \-\-max-back-scroll=\fIn\fP"
-Specifies a maximum number of lines to scroll backward.
-If it is necessary to scroll backward more than \fIn\fP lines,
-the screen is repainted in a forward direction instead.
-(If the terminal does not have the ability to scroll
-backward, \-h0 is implied.)
-.IP "\-i or \-\-ignore-case"
-Causes searches to ignore case; that is,
-uppercase and lowercase are considered identical.
-This option is ignored if any uppercase letters
-appear in the search pattern;
-in other words,
-if a pattern contains uppercase letters, then that search does not ignore case.
-.IP "\-I or \-\-IGNORE-CASE"
-Like \-i, but searches ignore case even if
-the pattern contains uppercase letters.
-.IP "\-j\fIn\fP or \-\-jump-target=\fIn\fP"
-Specifies a line on the screen where the "target" line
-is to be positioned.
-The target line is the line specified by any command to
-search for a pattern, jump to a line number,
-jump to a file percentage or jump to a tag.
-The screen line may be specified by a number: the top line on the screen
-is 1, the next is 2, and so on.
-The number may be negative to specify a line relative to the bottom
-of the screen: the bottom line on the screen is \-1, the second
-to the bottom is \-2, and so on.
-Alternately, the screen line may be specified as a fraction of the height
-of the screen, starting with a decimal point: .5 is in the middle of the
-screen, .3 is three tenths down from the first line, and so on.
-If the line is specified as a fraction, the actual line number
-is recalculated if the terminal window is resized, so that the
-target line remains at the specified fraction of the screen height.
-If any form of the \-j option is used,
-forward searches begin at the line immediately after the target line,
-and backward searches begin at the target line.
-For example, if "\-j4" is used, the target line is the
-fourth line on the screen, so forward searches begin at the fifth line
-on the screen.
-.IP "\-J or \-\-status-column"
-Displays a status column at the left edge of the screen.
-The status column shows the lines that matched the current search.
-The status column is also used if the \-w or \-W option is in effect.
-.IP "\-k\fIfilename\fP or \-\-lesskey-file=\fIfilename\fP"
-Causes
-.I less
-to open and interpret the named file as a
-.I lesskey
-(1) file.
-Multiple \-k options may be specified.
-If the LESSKEY or LESSKEY_SYSTEM environment variable is set, or
-if a lesskey file is found in a standard place (see KEY BINDINGS),
-it is also used as a
-.I lesskey
-file.
-.IP "\-K or \-\-quit-on-intr"
-Causes
-.I less
-to exit immediately when an interrupt character (usually ^C) is typed.
-Normally, an interrupt character causes
-.I less
-to stop whatever it is doing and return to its command prompt.
-Note that use of this option makes it impossible to return to the
-command prompt from the "F" command.
-.IP "\-L or \-\-no-lessopen"
-Ignore the LESSOPEN environment variable
-(see the INPUT PREPROCESSOR section below).
-This option can be set from within \fIless\fP,
-but it will apply only to files opened subsequently, not to the
-file which is currently open.
-.IP "\-m or \-\-long-prompt"
-Causes
-.I less
-to prompt verbosely (like \fImore\fP),
-with the percent into the file.
-By default,
-.I less
-prompts with a colon.
-.IP "\-M or \-\-LONG-PROMPT"
-Causes
-.I less
-to prompt even more verbosely than
-.I more.
-.IP "\-n or \-\-line-numbers"
-Suppresses line numbers.
-The default (to use line numbers) may cause
-.I less
-to run more slowly in some cases, especially with a very large input file.
-Suppressing line numbers with the \-n option will avoid this problem.
-Using line numbers means: the line number will be displayed in the verbose
-prompt and in the = command,
-and the v command will pass the current line number to the editor
-(see also the discussion of LESSEDIT in PROMPTS below).
-.IP "\-N or \-\-LINE-NUMBERS"
-Causes a line number to be displayed at the beginning of
-each line in the display.
-.IP "\-o\fIfilename\fP or \-\-log-file=\fIfilename\fP"
-Causes
-.I less
-to copy its input to the named file as it is being viewed.
-This applies only when the input file is a pipe,
-not an ordinary file.
-If the file already exists,
-.I less
-will ask for confirmation before overwriting it.
-.IP "\-O\fIfilename\fP or \-\-LOG-FILE=\fIfilename\fP"
-The \-O option is like \-o, but it will overwrite an existing
-file without asking for confirmation.
-.sp
-If no log file has been specified,
-the \-o and \-O options can be used from within
-.I less
-to specify a log file.
-Without a file name, they will simply report the name of the log file.
-The "s" command is equivalent to specifying \-o from within
-.I less.
-.IP "\-p\fIpattern\fP or \-\-pattern=\fIpattern\fP"
-The \-p option on the command line is equivalent to
-specifying +/\fIpattern\fP;
-that is, it tells
-.I less
-to start at the first occurrence of \fIpattern\fP in the file.
-.IP "\-P\fIprompt\fP or \-\-prompt=\fIprompt\fP"
-Provides a way to tailor the three prompt
-styles to your own preference.
-This option would normally be put in the LESS environment
-variable, rather than being typed in with each
-.I less
-command.
-Such an option must either be the last option in the LESS variable,
-or be terminated by a dollar sign.
--Ps followed by a string changes the default (short) prompt
-to that string.
--Pm changes the medium (\-m) prompt.
--PM changes the long (\-M) prompt.
--Ph changes the prompt for the help screen.
--P= changes the message printed by the = command.
--Pw changes the message printed while waiting for data (in the F command).
-All prompt strings consist of a sequence of
-letters and special escape sequences.
-See the section on PROMPTS for more details.
-.IP "\-q or \-\-quiet or \-\-silent"
-Causes moderately "quiet" operation:
-the terminal bell is not rung
-if an attempt is made to scroll past the end of the file
-or before the beginning of the file.
-If the terminal has a "visual bell", it is used instead.
-The bell will be rung on certain other errors,
-such as typing an invalid character.
-The default is to ring the terminal bell in all such cases.
-.IP "\-Q or \-\-QUIET or \-\-SILENT"
-Causes totally "quiet" operation:
-the terminal bell is never rung.
-.IP "\-r or \-\-raw-control-chars"
-Causes "raw" control characters to be displayed.
-The default is to display control characters using the caret notation;
-for example, a control-A (octal 001) is displayed as "^A".
-Warning: when the \-r option is used,
-.I less
-cannot keep track of the actual appearance of the screen
-(since this depends on how the screen responds to
-each type of control character).
-Thus, various display problems may result,
-such as long lines being split in the wrong place.
-.IP "\-R or \-\-RAW-CONTROL-CHARS"
-Like \-r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output in "raw" form.
-Unlike \-r, the screen appearance is maintained correctly in most cases.
-ANSI "color" escape sequences are sequences of the form:
-.sp
- ESC [ ... m
-.sp
-where the "..." is zero or more color specification characters
-For the purpose of keeping track of screen appearance,
-ANSI color escape sequences are assumed to not move the cursor.
-You can make
-.I less
-think that characters other than "m" can end ANSI color escape sequences
-by setting the environment variable LESSANSIENDCHARS to the list of
-characters which can end a color escape sequence.
-And you can make
-.I less
-think that characters other than the standard ones may appear between
-the ESC and the m by setting the environment variable LESSANSIMIDCHARS
-to the list of characters which can appear.
-.IP "\-s or \-\-squeeze-blank-lines"
-Causes consecutive blank lines to be squeezed into a single blank line.
-This is useful when viewing
-.I nroff
-output.
-.IP "\-S or \-\-chop-long-lines"
-Causes lines longer than the screen width to be
-chopped rather than folded.
-That is, the portion of a long line that does not fit in
-the screen width is not shown.
-The default is to fold long lines; that is, display the remainder
-on the next line.
-.IP "\-t\fItag\fP or \-\-tag=\fItag\fP"
-The \-t option, followed immediately by a TAG,
-will edit the file containing that tag.
-For this to work, tag information must be available;
-for example, there may be a file in the current directory called "tags",
-which was previously built by
-.I ctags
-(1) or an equivalent command.
-If the environment variable LESSGLOBALTAGS is set, it is taken to be
-the name of a command compatible with
-.I global
-(1), and that command is executed to find the tag.
-(See http://www.gnu.org/software/global/global.html).
-The \-t option may also be specified from within
-.I less
-(using the \- command) as a way of examining a new file.
-The command ":t" is equivalent to specifying \-t from within
-.I less.
-.IP "\-T\fItagsfile\fP or \-\-tag-file=\fItagsfile\fP"
-Specifies a tags file to be used instead of "tags".
-.IP "\-u or \-\-underline-special"
-Causes backspaces and carriage returns to be treated as printable characters;
-that is, they are sent to the terminal when they appear in the input.
-.IP "\-U or \-\-UNDERLINE-SPECIAL"
-Causes backspaces, tabs and carriage returns to be
-treated as control characters;
-that is, they are handled as specified by the \-r option.
-.sp
-By default, if neither \-u nor \-U is given,
-backspaces which appear adjacent to an underscore character
-are treated specially:
-the underlined text is displayed
-using the terminal's hardware underlining capability.
-Also, backspaces which appear between two identical characters
-are treated specially:
-the overstruck text is printed
-using the terminal's hardware boldface capability.
-Other backspaces are deleted, along with the preceding character.
-Carriage returns immediately followed by a newline are deleted.
-other carriage returns are handled as specified by the \-r option.
-Text which is overstruck or underlined can be searched for
-if neither \-u nor \-U is in effect.
-.IP "\-V or \-\-version"
-Displays the version number of
-.I less.
-.IP "\-w or \-\-hilite-unread"
-Temporarily highlights the first "new" line after a forward movement
-of a full page.
-The first "new" line is the line immediately following the line previously
-at the bottom of the screen.
-Also highlights the target line after a g or p command.
-The highlight is removed at the next command which causes movement.
-The entire line is highlighted, unless the \-J option is in effect,
-in which case only the status column is highlighted.
-.IP "\-W or \-\-HILITE-UNREAD"
-Like \-w, but temporarily highlights the first new line after any
-forward movement command larger than one line.
-.IP "\-x\fIn\fP,... or \-\-tabs=\fIn\fP,..."
-Sets tab stops.
-If only one \fIn\fP is specified, tab stops are set at multiples of \fIn\fP.
-If multiple values separated by commas are specified, tab stops
-are set at those positions, and then continue with the same spacing as the
-last two.
-For example, \fI-x9,17\fP will set tabs at positions 9, 17, 25, 33, etc.
-The default for \fIn\fP is 8.
-.IP "\-X or \-\-no-init"
-Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings
-to the terminal.
-This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string does
-something unnecessary, like clearing the screen.
-.IP "\-y\fIn\fP or \-\-max-forw-scroll=\fIn\fP"
-Specifies a maximum number of lines to scroll forward.
-If it is necessary to scroll forward more than \fIn\fP lines,
-the screen is repainted instead.
-The \-c or \-C option may be used to repaint from the top of
-the screen if desired.
-By default, any forward movement causes scrolling.
-.IP "\-[z]\fIn\fP or \-\-window=\fIn\fP"
-Changes the default scrolling window size to \fIn\fP lines.
-The default is one screenful.
-The z and w commands can also be used to change the window size.
-The "z" may be omitted for compatibility with some versions of
-.I more.
-If the number
-.I n
-is negative, it indicates
-.I n
-lines less than the current screen size.
-For example, if the screen is 24 lines, \fI\-z-4\fP sets the
-scrolling window to 20 lines. If the screen is resized to 40 lines,
-the scrolling window automatically changes to 36 lines.
-.IP "\-\fI\(dqcc\fP\ or\ \-\-quotes=\fIcc\fP"
-Changes the filename quoting character.
-This may be necessary if you are trying to name a file
-which contains both spaces and quote characters.
-Followed by a single character, this changes the quote character to that
-character.
-Filenames containing a space should then be surrounded by that character
-rather than by double quotes.
-Followed by two characters, changes the open quote to the first character,
-and the close quote to the second character.
-Filenames containing a space should then be preceded by the open quote
-character and followed by the close quote character.
-Note that even after the quote characters are changed, this option
-remains \-" (a dash followed by a double quote).
-.IP "\-~ or \-\-tilde"
-Normally lines after end of file are displayed as a single tilde (~).
-This option causes lines after end of file to be displayed as blank lines.
-.IP "\-# or \-\-shift"
-Specifies the default number of positions to scroll horizontally
-in the RIGHTARROW and LEFTARROW commands.
-If the number specified is zero, it sets the default number of
-positions to one half of the screen width.
-.IP "\-\-no-keypad"
-Disables sending the keypad initialization and deinitialization strings
-to the terminal.
-This is sometimes useful if the keypad strings make the numeric
-keypad behave in an undesirable manner.
-.IP "\-\-follow-name"
-Normally, if the input file is renamed while an F command is executing,
-.I less
-will continue to display the contents of the original file despite
-its name change.
-If \-\-follow-name is specified, during an F command
-.I less
-will periodically attempt to reopen the file by name.
-If the reopen succeeds and the file is a different file from the original
-(which means that a new file has been created
-with the same name as the original (now renamed) file),
-.I less
-will display the contents of that new file.
-.IP \-\-
-A command line argument of "\-\-" marks the end of option arguments.
-Any arguments following this are interpreted as filenames.
-This can be useful when viewing a file whose name begins with a "\-" or "+".
-.IP +
-If a command line option begins with \fB+\fP,
-the remainder of that option is taken to be an initial command to
-.I less.
-For example, +G tells
-.I less
-to start at the end of the file rather than the beginning,
-and +/xyz tells it to start at the first occurrence of "xyz" in the file.
-As a special case, +<number> acts like +<number>g;
-that is, it starts the display at the specified line number
-(however, see the caveat under the "g" command above).
-If the option starts with ++, the initial command applies to
-every file being viewed, not just the first one.
-The + command described previously
-may also be used to set (or change) an initial command for every file.
-
-.SH "LINE EDITING"
-When entering command line at the bottom of the screen
-(for example, a filename for the :e command,
-or the pattern for a search command),
-certain keys can be used to manipulate the command line.
-Most commands have an alternate form in [ brackets ] which can be used if
-a key does not exist on a particular keyboard.
-(The bracketed forms do not work in the MS-DOS version.)
-Any of these special keys may be entered literally by preceding
-it with the "literal" character, either ^V or ^A.
-A backslash itself may also be entered literally by entering two backslashes.
-.IP "LEFTARROW [ ESC-h ]"
-Move the cursor one space to the left.
-.IP "RIGHTARROW [ ESC-l ]"
-Move the cursor one space to the right.
-.IP "^LEFTARROW [ ESC-b or ESC-LEFTARROW ]"
-(That is, CONTROL and LEFTARROW simultaneously.)
-Move the cursor one word to the left.
-.IP "^RIGHTARROW [ ESC-w or ESC-RIGHTARROW ]"
-(That is, CONTROL and RIGHTARROW simultaneously.)
-Move the cursor one word to the right.
-.IP "HOME [ ESC-0 ]"
-Move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
-.IP "END [ ESC-$ ]"
-Move the cursor to the end of the line.
-.IP "BACKSPACE"
-Delete the character to the left of the cursor,
-or cancel the command if the command line is empty.
-.IP "DELETE or [ ESC-x ]"
-Delete the character under the cursor.
-.IP "^BACKSPACE [ ESC-BACKSPACE ]"
-(That is, CONTROL and BACKSPACE simultaneously.)
-Delete the word to the left of the cursor.
-.IP "^DELETE [ ESC-X or ESC-DELETE ]"
-(That is, CONTROL and DELETE simultaneously.)
-Delete the word under the cursor.
-.IP "UPARROW [ ESC-k ]"
-Retrieve the previous command line.
-.IP "DOWNARROW [ ESC-j ]"
-Retrieve the next command line.
-.IP "TAB"
-Complete the partial filename to the left of the cursor.
-If it matches more than one filename, the first match
-is entered into the command line.
-Repeated TABs will cycle thru the other matching filenames.
-If the completed filename is a directory, a "/" is appended to the filename.
-(On MS-DOS systems, a "\e" is appended.)
-The environment variable LESSSEPARATOR can be used to specify a
-different character to append to a directory name.
-.IP "BACKTAB [ ESC-TAB ]"
-Like, TAB, but cycles in the reverse direction thru the matching filenames.
-.IP "^L"
-Complete the partial filename to the left of the cursor.
-If it matches more than one filename, all matches are entered into
-the command line (if they fit).
-.IP "^U (Unix and OS/2) or ESC (MS-DOS)"
-Delete the entire command line,
-or cancel the command if the command line is empty.
-If you have changed your line-kill character in Unix to something
-other than ^U, that character is used instead of ^U.
-
-.SH "KEY BINDINGS"
-You may define your own
-.I less
-commands by using the program
-.I lesskey
-(1)
-to create a lesskey file.
-This file specifies a set of command keys and an action
-associated with each key.
-You may also use
-.I lesskey
-to change the line-editing keys (see LINE EDITING),
-and to set environment variables.
-If the environment variable LESSKEY is set,
-.I less
-uses that as the name of the lesskey file.
-Otherwise,
-.I less
-looks in a standard place for the lesskey file:
-On Unix systems,
-.I less
-looks for a lesskey file called "$HOME/.less".
-On MS-DOS and Windows systems,
-.I less
-looks for a lesskey file called "$HOME/_less", and if it is not found there,
-then looks for a lesskey file called "_less" in any directory specified
-in the PATH environment variable.
-On OS/2 systems,
-.I less
-looks for a lesskey file called "$HOME/less.ini", and if it is not found,
-then looks for a lesskey file called "less.ini" in any directory specified
-in the INIT environment variable, and if it not found there,
-then looks for a lesskey file called "less.ini" in any directory specified
-in the PATH environment variable.
-See the
-.I lesskey
-manual page for more details.
-.P
-A system-wide lesskey file may also be set up to provide key bindings.
-If a key is defined in both a local lesskey file and in the
-system-wide file, key bindings in the local file take precedence over
-those in the system-wide file.
-If the environment variable LESSKEY_SYSTEM is set,
-.I less
-uses that as the name of the system-wide lesskey file.
-Otherwise,
-.I less
-looks in a standard place for the system-wide lesskey file:
-On Unix systems, the system-wide lesskey file is /usr/local/etc/sysless.
-(However, if
-.I less
-was built with a different sysconf directory than /usr/local/etc,
-that directory is where the sysless file is found.)
-On MS-DOS and Windows systems, the system-wide lesskey file is c:\e_sysless.
-On OS/2 systems, the system-wide lesskey file is c:\esysless.ini.
-
-.SH "INPUT PREPROCESSOR"
-You may define an "input preprocessor" for
-.I less.
-Before
-.I less
-opens a file, it first gives your input preprocessor a chance to modify the
-way the contents of the file are displayed.
-An input preprocessor is simply an executable program (or shell script),
-which writes the contents of the file to a different file,
-called the replacement file.
-The contents of the replacement file are then displayed
-in place of the contents of the original file.
-However, it will appear to the user as if the original file is opened;
-that is,
-.I less
-will display the original filename as the name of the current file.
-.PP
-An input preprocessor receives one command line argument, the original filename,
-as entered by the user.
-It should create the replacement file, and when finished,
-print the name of the replacement file to its standard output.
-If the input preprocessor does not output a replacement filename,
-.I less
-uses the original file, as normal.
-The input preprocessor is not called when viewing standard input.
-To set up an input preprocessor, set the LESSOPEN environment variable
-to a command line which will invoke your input preprocessor.
-This command line should include one occurrence of the string "%s",
-which will be replaced by the filename
-when the input preprocessor command is invoked.
-.PP
-When
-.I less
-closes a file opened in such a way, it will call another program,
-called the input postprocessor,
-which may perform any desired clean-up action (such as deleting the
-replacement file created by LESSOPEN).
-This program receives two command line arguments, the original filename
-as entered by the user, and the name of the replacement file.
-To set up an input postprocessor, set the LESSCLOSE environment variable
-to a command line which will invoke your input postprocessor.
-It may include two occurrences of the string "%s";
-the first is replaced with the original name of the file and
-the second with the name of the replacement file,
-which was output by LESSOPEN.
-.PP
-For example, on many Unix systems, these two scripts will allow you
-to keep files in compressed format, but still let
-.I less
-view them directly:
-.PP
-lessopen.sh:
-.br
- #! /bin/sh
-.br
- case "$1" in
-.br
- *.Z) uncompress -\c $1 >/tmp/less.$$ 2>/dev/null
-.br
- if [ \-s /tmp/less.$$ ]; then
-.br
- echo /tmp/less.$$
-.br
- else
-.br
- rm \-f /tmp/less.$$
-.br
- fi
-.br
- ;;
-.br
- esac
-.PP
-lessclose.sh:
-.br
- #! /bin/sh
-.br
- rm $2
-.PP
-To use these scripts, put them both where they can be executed and
-set LESSOPEN="lessopen.sh\ %s", and
-LESSCLOSE="lessclose.sh\ %s\ %s".
-More complex LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE scripts may be written
-to accept other types of compressed files, and so on.
-.PP
-It is also possible to set up an input preprocessor to
-pipe the file data directly to
-.I less,
-rather than putting the data into a replacement file.
-This avoids the need to decompress the entire file before
-starting to view it.
-An input preprocessor that works this way is called an input pipe.
-An input pipe, instead of writing the name of a replacement file on
-its standard output,
-writes the entire contents of the replacement file on its standard output.
-If the input pipe does not write any characters on its standard output,
-then there is no replacement file and
-.I less
-uses the original file, as normal.
-To use an input pipe,
-make the first character in the LESSOPEN environment variable a
-vertical bar (|) to signify that the input preprocessor is an input pipe.
-.PP
-For example, on many Unix systems, this script will work like the
-previous example scripts:
-.PP
-lesspipe.sh:
-.br
- #! /bin/sh
-.br
- case "$1" in
-.br
- *.Z) uncompress \-c $1 2>/dev/null
-.br
- ;;
-.br
- esac
-.br
-.PP
-To use this script, put it where it can be executed and set
-LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s".
-When an input pipe is used, a LESSCLOSE postprocessor can be used,
-but it is usually not necessary since there is no replacement file
-to clean up.
-In this case, the replacement file name passed to the LESSCLOSE
-postprocessor is "\-".
-
-.SH "NATIONAL CHARACTER SETS"
-There are three types of characters in the input file:
-.IP "normal characters"
-can be displayed directly to the screen.
-.IP "control characters"
-should not be displayed directly, but are expected to be found
-in ordinary text files (such as backspace and tab).
-.IP "binary characters"
-should not be displayed directly and are not expected to be found
-in text files.
-.PP
-A "character set" is simply a description of which characters are to
-be considered normal, control, and binary.
-The LESSCHARSET environment variable may be used to select a character set.
-Possible values for LESSCHARSET are:
-.IP ascii
-BS, TAB, NL, CR, and formfeed are control characters,
-all chars with values between 32 and 126 are normal,
-and all others are binary.
-.IP iso8859
-Selects an ISO 8859 character set.
-This is the same as ASCII, except characters between 160 and 255 are
-treated as normal characters.
-.IP latin1
-Same as iso8859.
-.IP latin9
-Same as iso8859.
-.IP dos
-Selects a character set appropriate for MS-DOS.
-.IP ebcdic
-Selects an EBCDIC character set.
-.IP IBM-1047
-Selects an EBCDIC character set used by OS/390 Unix Services.
-This is the EBCDIC analogue of latin1. You get similar results
-by setting either LESSCHARSET=IBM-1047 or LC_CTYPE=en_US
-in your environment.
-.IP koi8-r
-Selects a Russian character set.
-.IP next
-Selects a character set appropriate for NeXT computers.
-.IP utf-8
-Selects the UTF-8 encoding of the ISO 10646 character set.
-UTF-8 is special in that it supports multi-byte characters in the input file.
-It is the only character set that supports multi-byte characters.
-.IP windows
-Selects a character set appropriate for Microsoft Windows (cp 1251).
-.PP
-In special cases, it may be desired to tailor
-.I less
-to use a character set other than the ones definable by LESSCHARSET.
-In this case, the environment variable LESSCHARDEF can be used
-to define a character set.
-It should be set to a string where each character in the string represents
-one character in the character set.
-The character "." is used for a normal character, "c" for control,
-and "b" for binary.
-A decimal number may be used for repetition.
-For example, "bccc4b." would mean character 0 is binary,
-1, 2 and 3 are control, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are binary, and 8 is normal.
-All characters after the last are taken to be the same as the last,
-so characters 9 through 255 would be normal.
-(This is an example, and does not necessarily
-represent any real character set.)
-.PP
-This table shows the value of LESSCHARDEF which is equivalent
-to each of the possible values for LESSCHARSET:
-.sp
- ascii\ 8bcccbcc18b95.b
-.br
- dos\ \ \ 8bcccbcc12bc5b95.b.
-.br
- ebcdic 5bc6bcc7bcc41b.9b7.9b5.b..8b6.10b6.b9.7b
-.br
- \ \ \ \ \ \ 9.8b8.17b3.3b9.7b9.8b8.6b10.b.b.b.
-.br
- IBM-1047 4cbcbc3b9cbccbccbb4c6bcc5b3cbbc4bc4bccbc
-.br
- \ \ \ \ \ \ 191.b
-.br
- iso8859 8bcccbcc18b95.33b.
-.br
- koi8-r 8bcccbcc18b95.b128.
-.br
- latin1 8bcccbcc18b95.33b.
-.br
- next\ \ 8bcccbcc18b95.bb125.bb
-.PP
-If neither LESSCHARSET nor LESSCHARDEF is set,
-but any of the strings "UTF-8", "UTF8", "utf-8" or "utf8"
-is found in the LC_ALL, LC_TYPE or LANG
-environment variables, then the default character set is utf-8.
-.PP
-If that string is not found, but your system supports the
-.I setlocale
-interface,
-.I less
-will use setlocale to determine the character set.
-setlocale is controlled by setting the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment
-variables.
-.PP
-Finally, if the
-.I setlocale
-interface is also not available, the default character set is latin1.
-.PP
-Control and binary characters are displayed in standout (reverse video).
-Each such character is displayed in caret notation if possible
-(e.g. ^A for control-A). Caret notation is used only if
-inverting the 0100 bit results in a normal printable character.
-Otherwise, the character is displayed as a hex number in angle brackets.
-This format can be changed by
-setting the LESSBINFMT environment variable.
-LESSBINFMT may begin with a "*" and one character to select
-the display attribute:
-"*k" is blinking, "*d" is bold, "*u" is underlined, "*s" is standout,
-and "*n" is normal.
-If LESSBINFMT does not begin with a "*", normal attribute is assumed.
-The remainder of LESSBINFMT is a string which may include one
-printf-style escape sequence (a % followed by x, X, o, d, etc.).
-For example, if LESSBINFMT is "*u[%x]", binary characters
-are displayed in underlined hexadecimal surrounded by brackets.
-The default if no LESSBINFMT is specified is "*s<%X>".
-The default if no LESSBINFMT is specified is "*s<%02X>".
-Warning: the result of expanding the character via LESSBINFMT must
-be less than 31 characters.
-.PP
-When the character set is utf-8, the LESSUTFBINFMT environment variable
-acts similarly to LESSBINFMT but it applies to Unicode code points
-that were successfully decoded but are unsuitable for display (e.g.,
-unassigned code points).
-Its default value is "<U+%04lX>".
-Note that LESSUTFBINFMT and LESSBINFMT share their display attribute
-setting ("*x") so specifying one will affect both;
-LESSUTFBINFMT is read after LESSBINFMT so its setting, if any,
-will have priority.
-Problematic octets in a UTF-8 file (octets of a truncated sequence,
-octets of a complete but non-shortest form sequence, illegal octets,
-and stray trailing octets)
-are displayed individually using LESSBINFMT so as to facilitate diagnostic
-of how the UTF-8 file is ill-formed.
-
-.SH "PROMPTS"
-The \-P option allows you to tailor the prompt to your preference.
-The string given to the \-P option replaces the specified prompt string.
-Certain characters in the string are interpreted specially.
-The prompt mechanism is rather complicated to provide flexibility,
-but the ordinary user need not understand the details of constructing
-personalized prompt strings.
-.sp
-A percent sign followed by a single character is expanded
-according to what the following character is:
-.IP "%b\fIX\fP"
-Replaced by the byte offset into the current input file.
-The b is followed by a single character (shown as \fIX\fP above)
-which specifies the line whose byte offset is to be used.
-If the character is a "t", the byte offset of the top line in the
-display is used,
-an "m" means use the middle line,
-a "b" means use the bottom line,
-a "B" means use the line just after the bottom line,
-and a "j" means use the "target" line, as specified by the \-j option.
-.IP "%B"
-Replaced by the size of the current input file.
-.IP "%c"
-Replaced by the column number of the text appearing in the first
-column of the screen.
-.IP "%d\fIX\fP"
-Replaced by the page number of a line in the input file.
-The line to be used is determined by the \fIX\fP, as with the %b option.
-.IP "%D"
-Replaced by the number of pages in the input file,
-or equivalently, the page number of the last line in the input file.
-.IP "%E"
-Replaced by the name of the editor (from the VISUAL environment variable,
-or the EDITOR environment variable if VISUAL is not defined).
-See the discussion of the LESSEDIT feature below.
-.IP "%f"
-Replaced by the name of the current input file.
-.IP "%i"
-Replaced by the index of the current file in the list of
-input files.
-.IP "%l\fIX\fP"
-Replaced by the line number of a line in the input file.
-The line to be used is determined by the \fIX\fP, as with the %b option.
-.IP "%L"
-Replaced by the line number of the last line in the input file.
-.IP "%m"
-Replaced by the total number of input files.
-.IP "%p\fIX\fP"
-Replaced by the percent into the current input file, based on byte offsets.
-The line used is determined by the \fIX\fP as with the %b option.
-.IP "%P\fIX\fP"
-Replaced by the percent into the current input file, based on line numbers.
-The line used is determined by the \fIX\fP as with the %b option.
-.IP "%s"
-Same as %B.
-.IP "%t"
-Causes any trailing spaces to be removed.
-Usually used at the end of the string, but may appear anywhere.
-.IP "%x"
-Replaced by the name of the next input file in the list.
-.PP
-If any item is unknown (for example, the file size if input
-is a pipe), a question mark is printed instead.
-.PP
-The format of the prompt string can be changed
-depending on certain conditions.
-A question mark followed by a single character acts like an "IF":
-depending on the following character, a condition is evaluated.
-If the condition is true, any characters following the question mark
-and condition character, up to a period, are included in the prompt.
-If the condition is false, such characters are not included.
-A colon appearing between the question mark and the
-period can be used to establish an "ELSE": any characters between
-the colon and the period are included in the string if and only if
-the IF condition is false.
-Condition characters (which follow a question mark) may be:
-.IP "?a"
-True if any characters have been included in the prompt so far.
-.IP "?b\fIX\fP"
-True if the byte offset of the specified line is known.
-.IP "?B"
-True if the size of current input file is known.
-.IP "?c"
-True if the text is horizontally shifted (%c is not zero).
-.IP "?d\fIX\fP"
-True if the page number of the specified line is known.
-.IP "?e"
-True if at end-of-file.
-.IP "?f"
-True if there is an input filename
-(that is, if input is not a pipe).
-.IP "?l\fIX\fP"
-True if the line number of the specified line is known.
-.IP "?L"
-True if the line number of the last line in the file is known.
-.IP "?m"
-True if there is more than one input file.
-.IP "?n"
-True if this is the first prompt in a new input file.
-.IP "?p\fIX\fP"
-True if the percent into the current input file, based on byte offsets,
-of the specified line is known.
-.IP "?P\fIX\fP"
-True if the percent into the current input file, based on line numbers,
-of the specified line is known.
-.IP "?s"
-Same as "?B".
-.IP "?x"
-True if there is a next input file
-(that is, if the current input file is not the last one).
-.PP
-Any characters other than the special ones
-(question mark, colon, period, percent, and backslash)
-become literally part of the prompt.
-Any of the special characters may be included in the prompt literally
-by preceding it with a backslash.
-.PP
-Some examples:
-.sp
-?f%f:Standard input.
-.sp
-This prompt prints the filename, if known;
-otherwise the string "Standard input".
-.sp
-?f%f .?ltLine %lt:?pt%pt\e%:?btByte %bt:-...
-.sp
-This prompt would print the filename, if known.
-The filename is followed by the line number, if known,
-otherwise the percent if known, otherwise the byte offset if known.
-Otherwise, a dash is printed.
-Notice how each question mark has a matching period,
-and how the % after the %pt
-is included literally by escaping it with a backslash.
-.sp
-?n?f%f\ .?m(file\ %i\ of\ %m)\ ..?e(END)\ ?x-\ Next\e:\ %x..%t
-.sp
-This prints the filename if this is the first prompt in a file,
-followed by the "file N of N" message if there is more
-than one input file.
-Then, if we are at end-of-file, the string "(END)" is printed
-followed by the name of the next file, if there is one.
-Finally, any trailing spaces are truncated.
-This is the default prompt.
-For reference, here are the defaults for
-the other two prompts (\-m and \-M respectively).
-Each is broken into two lines here for readability only.
-.nf
-.sp
-?n?f%f\ .?m(file\ %i\ of\ %m)\ ..?e(END)\ ?x-\ Next\e:\ %x.:
- ?pB%pB\e%:byte\ %bB?s/%s...%t
-.sp
-?f%f\ .?n?m(file\ %i\ of\ %m)\ ..?ltlines\ %lt-%lb?L/%L.\ :
- byte\ %bB?s/%s.\ .?e(END)\ ?x-\ Next\e:\ %x.:?pB%pB\e%..%t
-.sp
-.fi
-And here is the default message produced by the = command:
-.nf
-.sp
-?f%f\ .?m(file\ %i\ of\ %m)\ .?ltlines\ %lt-%lb?L/%L.\ .
- byte\ %bB?s/%s.\ ?e(END)\ :?pB%pB\e%..%t
-.fi
-.PP
-The prompt expansion features are also used for another purpose:
-if an environment variable LESSEDIT is defined, it is used
-as the command to be executed when the v command is invoked.
-The LESSEDIT string is expanded in the same way as the prompt strings.
-The default value for LESSEDIT is:
-.nf
-.sp
- %E\ ?lm+%lm.\ %f
-.sp
-.fi
-Note that this expands to the editor name, followed by a + and the
-line number, followed by the file name.
-If your editor does not accept the "+linenumber" syntax, or has other
-differences in invocation syntax, the LESSEDIT variable can be
-changed to modify this default.
-
-.SH SECURITY
-When the environment variable LESSSECURE is set to 1,
-.I less
-runs in a "secure" mode.
-This means these features are disabled:
-.RS
-.IP "!"
-the shell command
-.IP "|"
-the pipe command
-.IP ":e"
-the examine command.
-.IP "v"
-the editing command
-.IP "s \-o"
-log files
-.IP "\-k"
-use of lesskey files
-.IP "\-t"
-use of tags files
-.IP " "
-metacharacters in filenames, such as *
-.IP " "
-filename completion (TAB, ^L)
-.RE
-.PP
-Less can also be compiled to be permanently in "secure" mode.
-
-.SH "COMPATIBILITY WITH MORE"
-If the environment variable LESS_IS_MORE is set to 1,
-or if the program is invoked via a file link named "more",
-.I less
-behaves (mostly) in conformance with the POSIX "more" command specification.
-In this mode, less behaves differently in these ways:
-.PP
-The \-e option works differently.
-If the \-e option is not set,
-.I less
-behaves as if the \-E option were set.
-If the \-e option is set,
-.I less
-behaves as if the \-e and \-F options were set.
-.PP
-The \-m option works differently.
-If the \-m option is not set, the medium prompt is used,
-and it is prefixed with the string "--More--".
-If the \-m option is set, the short prompt is used.
-.PP
-The \-n option acts like the \-z option.
-The normal behavior of the \-n option is unavailable in this mode.
-.PP
-The parameter to the \-p option is taken to be a
-.I less
-command rather than a search pattern.
-.PP
-The LESS environment variable is ignored,
-and the MORE environment variable is used in its place.
-
-.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
-Environment variables may be specified either in the system environment
-as usual, or in a
-.I lesskey
-(1) file.
-If environment variables are defined in more than one place,
-variables defined in a local lesskey file take precedence over
-variables defined in the system environment, which take precedence
-over variables defined in the system-wide lesskey file.
-.IP COLUMNS
-Sets the number of columns on the screen.
-Takes precedence over the number of columns specified by the TERM variable.
-(But if you have a windowing system which supports TIOCGWINSZ or WIOCGETD,
-the window system's idea of the screen size takes precedence over the
-LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.)
-.IP EDITOR
-The name of the editor (used for the v command).
-.IP HOME
-Name of the user's home directory
-(used to find a lesskey file on Unix and OS/2 systems).
-.IP "HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH"
-Concatenation of the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables is
-the name of the user's home directory if the HOME variable is not set
-(only in the Windows version).
-.IP INIT
-Name of the user's init directory (used to find a lesskey file on OS/2 systems).
-.IP LANG
-Language for determining the character set.
-.IP LC_CTYPE
-Language for determining the character set.
-.IP LESS
-Options which are passed to
-.I less
-automatically.
-.IP LESSANSIENDCHARS
-Characters which may end an ANSI color escape sequence
-(default "m").
-.IP LESSANSIMIDCHARS
-Characters which may appear between the ESC character and the
-end character in an ANSI color escape sequence
-(default "0123456789;[?!"'#%()*+\ ".
-.IP LESSBINFMT
-Format for displaying non-printable, non-control characters.
-.IP LESSCHARDEF
-Defines a character set.
-.IP LESSCHARSET
-Selects a predefined character set.
-.IP LESSCLOSE
-Command line to invoke the (optional) input-postprocessor.
-.IP LESSECHO
-Name of the lessecho program (default "lessecho").
-The lessecho program is needed to expand metacharacters, such as * and ?,
-in filenames on Unix systems.
-.IP LESSEDIT
-Editor prototype string (used for the v command).
-See discussion under PROMPTS.
-.IP LESSGLOBALTAGS
-Name of the command used by the \-t option to find global tags.
-Normally should be set to "global" if your system has the
-.I global
-(1) command. If not set, global tags are not used.
-.IP LESSHISTFILE
-Name of the history file used to remember search commands and
-shell commands between invocations of
-.I less.
-If set to "\-" or "/dev/null", a history file is not used.
-The default is "$HOME/.lesshst" on Unix systems, "$HOME/_lesshst" on
-DOS and Windows systems, or "$HOME/lesshst.ini" or "$INIT/lesshst.ini"
-on OS/2 systems.
-.IP LESSHISTSIZE
-The maximum number of commands to save in the history file.
-The default is 100.
-.IP LESSKEY
-Name of the default lesskey(1) file.
-.IP LESSKEY_SYSTEM
-Name of the default system-wide lesskey(1) file.
-.IP LESSMETACHARS
-List of characters which are considered "metacharacters" by the shell.
-.IP LESSMETAESCAPE
-Prefix which less will add before each metacharacter in a
-command sent to the shell.
-If LESSMETAESCAPE is an empty string, commands containing
-metacharacters will not be passed to the shell.
-.IP LESSOPEN
-Command line to invoke the (optional) input-preprocessor.
-.IP LESSSECURE
-Runs less in "secure" mode.
-See discussion under SECURITY.
-.IP LESSSEPARATOR
-String to be appended to a directory name in filename completion.
-.IP LESSUTFBINFMT
-Format for displaying non-printable Unicode code points.
-.IP LESS_IS_MORE
-Emulate the
-.I more
-(1) command.
-.IP LINES
-Sets the number of lines on the screen.
-Takes precedence over the number of lines specified by the TERM variable.
-(But if you have a windowing system which supports TIOCGWINSZ or WIOCGETD,
-the window system's idea of the screen size takes precedence over the
-LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.)
-.IP PATH
-User's search path (used to find a lesskey file
-on MS-DOS and OS/2 systems).
-.IP SHELL
-The shell used to execute the ! command, as well as to expand filenames.
-.IP TERM
-The type of terminal on which
-.I less
-is being run.
-.IP VISUAL
-The name of the editor (used for the v command).
-
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-lesskey(1)
-
-.SH WARNINGS
-The = command and prompts (unless changed by \-P)
-report the line numbers of the lines at the top and bottom of the screen,
-but the byte and percent of the line after the one at the bottom of the screen.
-.PP
-On certain older terminals (the so-called "magic cookie" terminals),
-search highlighting will cause an erroneous display.
-On such terminals, search highlighting is disabled by default
-to avoid possible problems.
-.PP
-When searching in a binary file, text which follows a null byte
-may not be found.
-This problem does not occur when searching with regular expressions turned
-off via ^R, and also does not occur when
-.I less
-is compiled to use the PCRE regular expression library.
-.PP
-In certain cases, when search highlighting is enabled and
-a search pattern begins with a ^,
-more text than the matching string may be highlighted.
-(This problem does not occur when less is compiled to use the POSIX
-regular expression package.)
-.PP
-On some systems,
-.I setlocale
-claims that ASCII characters 0 thru 31 are control characters
-rather than binary characters.
-This causes
-.I less
-to treat some binary files as ordinary, non-binary files.
-To workaround this problem, set the environment variable
-LESSCHARSET to "ascii" (or whatever character set is appropriate).
-.PP
-This manual is too long.
-.PP
-See http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less for the latest list of known bugs in less.
-
-.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Mark Nudelman
-.PP
-less is part of the GNU project and is free software.
-You can redistribute it and/or modify it
-under the terms of either
-(1) the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; or (2) the Less License.
-See the file README in the less distribution for more details
-regarding redistribution.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with the source for less; see the file COPYING.
-If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place,
-Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-You should also have received a copy of the Less License;
-see the file LICENSE.
-.PP
-less is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
-or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-.SH AUTHOR
-.PP
-Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
-.br
-Send bug reports or comments to the above address or to
-.br
-bug-less@gnu.org.
-.br
-For more information, see the less homepage at
-.br
-http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less.
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