Most (Unix)

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{{Infobox Software

| name = most

| logo =

| screenshot =

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| author = John E. Davis

| developer = Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills

| latest_release_version = 5.2.0

| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2022|08|04}}

| repo = https://github.com/jedsoft/most

| operating_system = Cross-platform

| genre = system utility

| license = GPL

| website = {{URL|jedsoft.org/most/}}

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most is a terminal pager program on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, Windows{{cite web|url=http://www.jedsoft.org/most/index.html|title=The MOST pager|website=Jedsoft.org|access-date=26 December 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://foldoc.org/pager|title=Pager from FOLDOC|website=Foldoc.org|access-date=26 December 2018}} 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.

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.{{Cite web | url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/most | title=Most(1): Browse/Page through text file - Linux man page }}