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.Dd July 22, 2016
.Dt MLESS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mless
.Nd interactive wrapper around mshow
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Ar msgs\ ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
runs
.Xr less 1
on the output of
.Xr mshow 1
for the given messages.
See
.Xr mmsg 7
for the message argument syntax.
.Pp
When no messages are passed and standard input is from a pipe,
.Xr msetseq 1
will be called and
.Nm
is run on the resulting sequence.
The first "file" of the less instance will be the output of
.Xr mscan 1 .
This makes
.Nm
convenient for use at the end of a pipe.
.Pp
.Nm
will start
.Xr less 1
displaying the current message if possible.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr less 1 ,
.Xr mscan 1 ,
.Xr msetseq 1 ,
.Xr mshow 1 ,
.Xr mmsg 7
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Christian Neukirchen Aq Mt chneukirchen@gmail.com
.Sh LICENSE
.Nm
is in the public domain.
.Pp
To the extent possible under law,
the creator of this work
has waived all copyright and related or
neighboring rights to this work.
.Pp
.Lk http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/