[Lynx-dev] More or less (was Re: Where does -dump output go?)

[Ian Collier]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:25:05PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
> more instead of cat, and to those purists that claim less is better, let me
> remind those that less and more are the same executable on most linux
> systems

This is off-topic, but: no they are not.  "Most" Linux systems?

Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora all have 'more' as part of the util-linux
package and 'less' as its own package.  The 'more' binary is much smaller
than the 'less' binary.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190544 Jan 29  2020 /bin/less
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  45464 May 20  2020 /bin/more

imc