Practical Tips for Using the Unix/Linux 'less' Command Effectively

While most folks invoke less at the tail of a pipeline like $ command | less, you can directly provide one or more files to open $ less README.txt file.c *.md

When reading a document, sometimes you want to view another file, adding it to the file list. Perhaps while reading some C source code you want to...

In a recent discussion on Reddit I shared a number of tips about the common utility less(1) that others found helpful so I figured I'd aggregate some of those tips here.