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When I view a file in Linux with the 'less' command, I often only get a ":" prompt in the bottom left corner. There's no clue about how long the file will be, or at which location I am currently. When reading manpages with 'man', there's a file title and line number in that corner. And once I hit the end of the file, there's even a percentage shown. I've learned about 'less -m' but it's not that powerful. So what does 'man' differently from 'less'? They appear to be the same viewing programme, except for that file information difference.
(Using Ubuntu 10.4 LTS)
Okay, I now found that there's a LESS environment variable and that you can specify "prompts" in less. But the manpage is so very complicated to read in that section that I probably do that later if at all. Or does anybody know a practical solution for that? Using the very environment variable from above doesn't change a thing for me. – ygoe – 2010-08-09T17:30:39.773