[feature] alias "more" to "less"

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri May 11 16:24:00 GMT 2012


On 5/11/2012 9:35 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM
>> It seems that pretty much all unixes alias "more" to "less" these days.
>> It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin.
>>
>> Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I
>> type "more ...." on a newly installed box :-)
>
> more.exe is supplied by the util-linux package.

And as is true of the traditional 'more', it can do less than 'less'. ;-)

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