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Less is a free, open-source file pager. It can be found on most versions of Linux, Unix and Mac OS, as well as on many other operating systems.


Releases

The current released version is less-418. It was released on 2 Jan 2008.

News

23 Jun 2008 less-424 is available for BETA testing.
If you wish to participate in testing this beta release, click here.

Less-424 has only two small changes relative to less-423: a bug in compiling for the pcre regular expression library has been fixed, and the help message is no longer affected by ampersand filtering.

10 Jun 2008 less-423 is available for BETA testing.
2 Jan 2008 less-418 has been released.
This version provides emulation of SGR escape sequences for Windows, uses version 3 of the GPL, and fixes a few bugs.
26 Mar 2007 A mailing list for less announcements is now available.
You can subscribe to this list to receive announcements when new versions of less are released. Click on the mailing list link at the top of the page for more details.

This page was last updated on 23 Jun 2008.