How to exit file reading mode (in `less`) in Linux terminal?
To quit less
, type q.
Also, check out man less
, or type h from within less
for some more, useful bits of information.
In general, assuming man
has been properly installed, man xyz
will tell you how to use the xyz
tool. On GNU systems like Cygwin or what you call Linux at least, man
will usually display through less
as well, so to exit from man
, again you would type q (which also works in more
or most
which are other pagers used by man
or other commands that need paging on other systems).