This article spotlights alternative tools to less.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to less | |
|---|---|
| ov | Feature rich terminal pager with column-rainbow mode |
| most | Supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right |
| slit | Modern pager for noisy logs |
| les | Pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features |
| moor | Reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines |
| streampager | Pager for command output or large files |
| more | Filter for paging through text |
| peep | CLI text viewer tool |
| lore | less-like terminal pager |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to less? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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