Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 42879
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2006/5/1-4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42879 Activity:nil
5/1     Has more always been less? Now I have to hit q when I get to the end
        of the motd, as opposed to just returning me to the shell. Is this
        new or did I just not notice this change? Now I have to do LESS=-EF
        \_ on FreeBSD, more was basically less with certain arguments assumed.
           on most linux distribs, it's just less, period.  (more or less)
        \_ What are you talking about? If I use /bin/more it returns me to
           the shell at the end.
           \_ /bin/more is a separate binary from /usr/bin/more, which is a
              symlink to /usr/bin/less  If (like most people), you have /usr/bin
              before /bin in your path, you'll get less.
              \_ Ah, I had /bin before /usr/bin. What's the reasoning behind
                 having /usr/bin before /bin? Or maybe, that symlink should
                 be removed. It makes no sense, because less doesn't behave
                 identically to more. Maybe if less had a feature to behave
                 like more when invoked as that. (Like bash/sh)
                                                  \_ except bash doesn't
                                                     really act like sh still
                 \_ Usually the crappiest, simplest, oldest, safest versions of
                    things are in /bin, the system standard ones in /usr/bin,
                    the sexy new weird local ones in /usr/local/bin, and your
                    own custom build in ~/bin.  So most people order their path
                    ~/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin
                    \_ Well, ok but normally, stuff in /bin wouldn't be also in
                       /usr/bin. But mainly yeah more just shouldn't be linked
                       to less like that.
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