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less Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Navigation

SPACE
forward one window
b
backward one window
d
forward half window
u
backward half window
j
navigate forward by one lin
10j
10 lines forward
k
navigate backward by one line
10k
10 lines backward
G
go to the end of file
g
go to the start of file
q or ZZ
exit the less pager

Search

/
search for a pattern which will take you to the next occurrence
?
search for a pattern which will take you to the previous occurrence
n
for next match in forward
N
for previous match in backward

Other

F
simulate tail -f inside less pager
ma
mark the current position with the letter ‘a’
‘a
go to the marked position ‘a’
&p­attern
display only the matching lines, not all.
v
using the configured editor edit the current file
CTRL+G
show the current file name along with line, byte and percentage statistics