Throughout this book, you will often use programs and tools that use the program less or a less-like navigation to view and read file content or display output. At first, the control can seem a bit unintuitive .Here, in this recipe, we will show you the basics of how to navigate through a file using less controls.
To complete this recipe, you will require a working installation of the CentOS 7 operating system with root privileges.
man man
Here, in this short recipe, we have shown you the very basics of less navigation, which is essential for reading man pages and is used by a lot of other programs throughout this book to display text. We only showed you the basic commands and there is much more to learn. Please read the less manual to find out more on man less
command.