most (Unix)
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Original author(s) | John E. Davis |
Developer(s) | Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills |
Initial release | before February 22, 2005[1] | (version 4.10.1)
Stable release | 5.2.0[2] ![]() |
Repository | https://github.com/jedsoft/most |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | system utility |
License | GPL |
Website | jedsoft |
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]
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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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]
- ^ "most releases". Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ a b "The MOST pager". Jedsoft.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "Pager from FOLDOC". Foldoc.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "Most(1): Browse/Page through text file - Linux man page".