Viewing small files in Unix

We have two commands for this:

cat takes in a file OR stdin and dumps it into stdout (i.e. prints it out) For example just run cat myfile This is more useful for short files. For long ones we use less

less views a text file with nice scrolling and searching functionality!

Simply call less myfile

Why is it called less !?

The old limited viewer was called more so the newer and better one is called less to call back to the proverb less is more