Timeline for Why use cat to view a file?
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| Apr 8, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | SaggingRufus | @MarkPlotnick all I got from that: less is more when dealing with cats. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | Mark Plotnick | So, more is more standard, less is less standard, and more has more functionality than cat. but more has less functionality than less. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 14:44 | comment | added | JdeBP | The question is not asking about additional functionality, and as even M. Henle acknowledges, explicitly includes more in what it is asking about. An argument that only the cat program in the question is standard falls over because it isn't true. It's as simple as that. Remember where I wrote about comment discussions that address things that we already have Q&As about? Here you are doing it. Read unix.stackexchange.com/a/333946/5132 and unix.stackexchange.com/a/340511/5132 for starters. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 14:26 | comment | added | 0xSheepdog | @JdeBP Except more does not have the additional functionality of less and still requires more keystrokes, and different commands/function keys, to do things. There are several ways to do almost EVERYTHING in *NIX. Often there is no single "correct" way of doing it (all things being equal). Now, if you need a method that does not spawn additional processes, or have other esoteric limitations, then certainly the ability to do things multiple ways is good. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 14:19 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | @JdeBP True, but the question refers to less quite specifically, relegating more to a footnote - literally. I'm also pretty sure that footnote wasn't in the original posting (edits made in the first few minutes don't show). | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 14:02 | comment | added | JdeBP | That argument rather falls over when it turns out that so too is more. (-: | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 13:58 | history | answered | Andrew Henle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |