Is there a command in the Windows DOS prompt that is equivalent to the UNIX less or more?
Basically, the problem is that when I type hg log, the output has too many lines to fit on the screen and I want to paginate it.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
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Windows has the command more. E.g. (Taken from Wikipedia)
To display the file named letter.txt on the screen, the user can type either of the following two commands:
more < letter.txt type letter.txt | more So in your case you want hg log | more.
For heavier usage you will want something like UnxUtils or GnuWin32, which have a more powerful less utility.
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On Windows 10, you can install the Windows Subsystem for Linux:
The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine.
Once installed, start bash.exe and run less /mnt/c/temp/test.txt to open the file test.txt located in c:\temp.
If you don't mind installing additional software gow is a nice toolkit with a set of standalone unix style tools that you can use, including less and more - it requires an install since it adds itself to path, but you can copy and use the install directory elsewhere as well.
1Up-to-date less build for Windows is here:
2Here you can find up-to-date less builds for Windows:
This are the reccomended Windows builds on the less official download page.
I install a ready-to-run less via choco:
choco install less
It uses the binary generated by the aforementioned less-Windows
