Most (Unix)

{{lowercase}} {{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 | genre = system utility | license = GPL-2.0-or-later | website = {{URL|jedsoft.org/most/}} }} '''<code>most</code>''' is a program on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, 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 systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. Programs of this sort are called ''pagers''.<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</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. Robert Mills re-wrote the search routines to use regular expressions.<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) * more (command) * less (Unix)

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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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Category:Terminal pagers

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