Most (Unix)

most is a program on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, Windows^[2] 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.^[3] It is similar to more, but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file, and can scroll left and right. most also supports multiple windows.^[2]

most
Original author	John E. Davis
Developers	Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills
Initial release	before February 22, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-02-22) (version 4.10.1)[1]
Stable release	5.2.0  / 4 August 2022; 3 years ago (4 August 2022)
Repository	https://github.com/jedsoft/most
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	system utility
License	GPL
Website	jedsoft.org/most/

Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, and Mark Pizzolato contributed to early VMS versions of most. Mark Pizzolato worked on it to get it ready for DECUS. Robert Mills re-wrote the search routines to use regular expressions.^[4]

See also

• pg (Unix)
• more (command)
• less (Unix)