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[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's said that less is more but I more or less use less more than more.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I both understood that sentence perfectly and sounded like a crazy person while reading it out loud.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

This would fit in perfectly in Dr Suess' Hop on pop

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Been using Less for so long...

Forgot More existed. 🤷‍♂️

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago

I don't know why anyone would use more when less is more with more features.

[–] SpicySquid@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

[–] msherburn33@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

$ cat ~/.config/bat/config
--wrap=never
[–] timroerstroem@feddit.dk 13 points 1 month ago

$ cat ~/.config/bat/config

The irony.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I ain't got no time for no config! I'm a busy man!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You dropped your friggin' > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Souldn't there be two of those to append?

Ow! ^

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At least I usebash!

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"less". If its a small file i use cat. If i want the top I use "head" or "tail' for the bottom. For a specific string i use "grep"

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I feel like more punctuation was called for here. /s

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure if I've used more in the last 25 years. And when I did I think it was in MS-DOS.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 12 points 1 month ago
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is that an alias or a sys env?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, less is weird there with needing the pipe.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Less is more!

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it's not that different from more... My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

your buffer size must exceed several floppies!

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Less, then "vim -" after I realize I don't know how to use less.

tail -f of vim

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

more only if less is not available

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

I like that more behaves like cat when there's less than a page of output rather than requiring you to press q to get back to the prompt even when it would just fit.

There's probably a way to make less do that too, but more already does it without configuration. Overall I use less most of the time but I like having the option.

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago
[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought Less is More?

But because it comes first that is what I usually use.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use less always, and am genuinely puzzled by people who use more

[–] petey@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Old habits die hard? I used to administer old SunOS machines that didn’t have less (and would take considerable effort to install on all of the machines) so these days I just alias more to less

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Neither, bat or neovim.

[–] simonced@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I use more because I learned more first. Now it's in muscle memory, so I won't change anytime soon.

[–] AndyRTR@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

alias less='moar'

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't more like the main driver for our prospering civilization?

Some might say that the shift in desiring less is the downward path for the over-saturated humanity.

But lets not get too deep here.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Could you be more cryptic?

[–] HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those are two pager programs on Linux. less has more features than more and that's what most people use.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Laser@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Allows you to scroll through / view a text file in the terminal.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, back in days of yore when the cyberbunnies had to run their lines through the bare wastes of the great Dave's router, there existed a tool so coveted by the eunuchs that they named it twice, and would beg for degrees of release depending on how gimped up they were. "More" some would scream, "less" others would whisper.