From 2e86718d2efaa0e7113a46162d2be3b50e92090e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: benjamyn Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:13:31 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Added pagers documentation --- docs/Commands/pagers.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/Commands/pagers.md diff --git a/docs/Commands/pagers.md b/docs/Commands/pagers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c36989 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Commands/pagers.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Pagers + +Pagers in linux are used to diplay text that is larger then the terminal size while allowing the user to scroll through the contents of the file page by page or in some cases line by line and provide extra functions like searching + +Some applications will send there output into a pager instead of going through STDOUT usually this option can be removed using a flag, this flag is usually along the lines of `--no-pager` + +An example of a pager is the `less` and `more` applications, less is usually the default pager application \ No newline at end of file