NAME
more - display the contents of a file in a terminal
SYNOPSIS
more [options] file ...
DESCRIPTION
more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This version is especially primitive. Users should realize that less(1) provides more(1) emulation plus extensive enhancements.
OPTIONS
Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE (make sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options will override those.
-d, --silent
-l, --logical
-e, --exit-on-eof
-f, --no-pause
-p, --print-over
-c, --clean-print
-s, --squeeze
-u, --plain
-n, --linesnumber
-number
+number
+/string
-h, --help
-V, --version
COMMANDS
Interactive commands for more are based on vi(1). Some commands may be preceded by a decimal number, called k in the descriptions below. In the following descriptions, ^X means control-X.
h or ?
SPACE
z
RETURN
d or ^D
q or Q or INTERRUPT
s
f
b or ^B
'
=
/pattern
n
!command or :!command
v
^L
:n
:p
:f
.
ENVIRONMENT
The more command respects the following environment variables, if they exist:
MORE
SHELL
TERM
VISUAL
EDITOR
POSIXLY_CORRECT
HISTORY
The more command appeared in 3.0BSD. This man page documents more version 5.19 (Berkeley 6/29/88), which is currently in use in the Linux community. Documentation was produced using several other versions of the man page, and extensive inspection of the source code.
AUTHORS
Eric Shienbrood, UC Berkeley.
Modified by Geoff Peck, UCB to add underlining, single spacing.
Modified by John Foderaro, UCB to add -c and MORE environment variable.
SEE ALSO
less(1), vi(1)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY
The more command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.