Theory: Viewing long files with pagers

Lesson notes

• less to view files in a pager
  • h for help inside less pager
  • j, k to move down and up line by line
  • q to exit the pager
  • / to search (e.g. /dancing to search for 'dancing')
    • n and shift+n to move to next and previous search result
  • g to go to the end of file, shift+g to go to the beginning