Installing Less-358

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Installation of Less

Install Less by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin &&
make &&
make install

Contents of less-358

Program Files

less, lessecho and lesskey

Description

less

The less program is a file pager (or text viewer). It displays the contents of a file with the ability to scroll. Less is an improvement on the common pager called "more". Less has the ability to scroll backwards through files as well and it doesn't need to read the entire file when it starts, which makes it faster when reading large files.

lessecho

lessecho is needed to expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.

lesskey

lesskey is used to specify key bindings for less.

Dependencies

Less-358 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, mv, rm, touch
grep: grep
gcc: cc
make: make
sed: sed
sh-utils: dirname, expr, uname
textutils: cat, tr