I wanted to mention a couple of handy features of less (the GNU pager,
if that's not clear) which I discovered only recently.  I'd never seen
them, and I bet lots of other folks didn't know about them too.

A while back, a coworker showed me the -S option of less.  This makes
the lines of less output scroll off the right side of your window if
they are too long to fit, but you can use the arrow keys to scroll
over to see the rest of the lines.  You can use the option on the
command line, or toggle this mode by typing -S at the interactive
prompt.  Especially useful for viewing database queries with long or
large numbers of columns, and/or long log lines, etc.

Earlier this week, a different coworker showed me that if you press
'F' at the interactive prompt, it puts less in "tail -f" mode.  This
is super cool, since you can toggle back and forth easily, and if you
search for some text, less will highlight matches even while in tail
-f mode.  Again, great for looking at logs.

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