Most (Unix)

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most
Original author(s) John E. Davis
Developer(s) Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills
Initial releasebefore February 22, 2005;20 years ago (2005-02-22) (version 4.10.1) [1]
Stable release
5.2.0 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 4 August 2022;2 years ago (4 August 2022)
Repository https://github.com/jedsoft/most
Operating system Cross-platform
Type system utility
License GPL
Website jedsoft.org/most/

most is a program on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, Windows [3] and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. Programs of this sort are called pagers. [4] It is similar to more , but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file, and can scroll left and right. most also supports multiple windows. [3]

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Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, and Mark Pizzolato contributed to early VMS versions of most. Mark Pizzolato worked on it to get it ready for DECUS. Robert Mills re-wrote the search routines to use regular expressions. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ earliest version listed on "most releases". www.jedsoft.org. Retrieved 3 July 2025. old/most-4.10.1.tar.gz creation date: 2005-02-22T05:00:00 [UTC]
  2. ↑ "most releases" . Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  3. 1 2 "The MOST pager". Jedsoft.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Pager from FOLDOC". Foldoc.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Most(1): Browse/Page through text file - Linux man page".
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