Add Skip Paging If Output Fits On Screen With Less as a unix til

Author: jbranchaud

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 - [Show A File Preview When Searching With FZF](unix/show-a-file-preview-when-searching-with-fzf.md)
 - [Show Disk Usage For The Current Directory](unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md)
 - [Show The Size Of Everything In A Directory](unix/show-the-size-of-everything-in-a-directory.md)
+- [Skip Paging If Output Fits On Screen With Less](unix/skip-paging-if-output-fits-on-screen-with-less.md)
 - [SSH Escape Sequences](unix/ssh-escape-sequences.md)
 - [SSH With Port Forwarding](unix/ssh-with-port-forwarding.md)
 - [Specify The Language For A File With Bat](unix/specify-the-language-for-a-file-with-bat.md)

unix/skip-paging-if-output-fits-on-screen-with-less.md

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+# Skip Paging If Output Fits On Screen With Less
+
+The `less` command can be used to display a file or the output of a command. It
+is sometimes referred to as a pager because it paginates text that won't fit
+onto a single screen.
+
+```bash
+$ ls | less
+```
+
+This will list the files for the current directory with `less`.
+
+By default it will even display a small amount of text output within the pager.
+If you want `less` to output text that fits onto a single screen directly to
+the terminal, you can pass the `-F` and `-X` flags.
+
+```bash
+$ ls | less -FX
+```
+
+The `-F` flag tells `less` to exit if the output fits onto a single screen. The
+`-X` tells `less` to skip screen clearing.
+
+This is handy if you want the output of a command to show up in your shell
+history.
+
+See `man less` for more details.