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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-less" xreflabel="Less" role="wrap">
<title>Less-&less-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="less.html"?>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-less"><primary sortas="a-Less">Less</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Less package contains a text file viewer.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.4 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Less installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Less</title>
<para>Prepare Less for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This option tells the programs created by the package to look in
<filename class="directory">/etc</filename> for their configuration files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>Now install it:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-less" role="content"><title>Contents of Less</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>less, lessecho and lesskey</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
<varlistentry id="less">
<term><command>less</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-less less"><primary sortas="b-less">less</primary></indexterm>
<para>is a file viewer or pager. It displays the contents of the given file, letting you
scroll around, find strings, and jump to marks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="lessecho">
<term><command>lessecho</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-less lessecho"><primary sortas="b-lessecho">lessecho</primary></indexterm>
<para>is needed to expand meta-characters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="lesskey">
<term><command>lesskey</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-less lesskey"><primary sortas="b-lesskey">lesskey</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to specify the key bindings for <command>less</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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