# Most (Unix)

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{{Infobox Software
| name = most
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption =
| author = John E. Davis
| developer = Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills
| released = before {{Start date and age|2005|02|22}} (version 4.10.1)<ref>earliest version listed on {{cite web |title=most releases |url=https://www.jedsoft.org/releases/most/ |website=www.jedsoft.org |access-date=3 July 2025 |quote=old/most-4.10.1.tar.gz creation date: 2005-02-22T05:00:00 [UTC]}}</ref>
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}|df=yes}}
| repo = https://github.com/jedsoft/most
| operating_system = [Cross-platform](/source/Cross-platform)
| genre = system utility
| license = [GPL-2.0-or-later](/source/GNU_General_Public_License)
| website = {{URL|jedsoft.org/most/}}
}}
'''<code>most</code>''' is a [program](/source/Computer_program) on [Unix](/source/Unix), [OpenVMS](/source/OpenVMS), [MS-DOS](/source/MS-DOS), [Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows)<ref name="jedsoft">{{cite web|url=http://www.jedsoft.org/most/index.html|title=The MOST pager|website=Jedsoft.org|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> and [Unix-like](/source/Unix-like) systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a [text file](/source/text_file) one screen at a time. Programs of this sort are called [''pagers''](/source/Terminal_pager).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://foldoc.org/pager|title=Pager from FOLDOC|website=Foldoc.org|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> It is similar to <code>[more](/source/more_(command))</code>, but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file, and can scroll left and right. <code>most</code> also supports multiple windows.<ref name="jedsoft" />

Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, and Mark Pizzolato contributed to early VMS versions of <code>most</code>. Mark Pizzolato worked on it to get it ready for [DECUS](/source/DECUS). Robert Mills re-wrote the [search routines](/source/search_algorithm) to use [regular expression](/source/regular_expression)s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/most | title=Most(1): Browse/Page through text file - Linux man page }}</ref>

==See also==
* [pg (Unix)](/source/pg_(Unix))
* [more (command)](/source/more_(command))
* [less (Unix)](/source/less_(Unix))

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.jedsoft.org/most The MOST pager Home Page]
*[http://linux.die.net/man/1/most manpage for most]

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