more - display the contents of a file in a terminal
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 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
Prompt with "[Press space to continue, 'q' to
quit.]", and display "[Press 'h' for instructions.]" instead of
ringing the bell when an illegal key is pressed.
-l, --logical
Do not pause after any line containing a ^L (form
feed).
-e, --exit-on-eof
Exit on End-Of-File, enabled by default if
POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set or if not executed on
terminal.
-f, --no-pause
Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long
lines are not folded).
-p, --print-over
Do not scroll. Instead, clear the whole screen and then
display the text. Notice that this option is switched on automatically if the
executable is named page.
-c, --clean-print
Do not scroll. Instead, paint each screen from the top,
clearing the remainder of each line as it is displayed.
-s, --squeeze
Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
-u, --plain
Suppress underlining. This option is silently ignored as
backwards compatibility.
-n, --lines number
Specify the number of lines per screenful. The
number argument is a positive decimal integer. The --lines
option shall override any values obtained from any other source, such as
number of lines reported by terminal.
-number
A numeric option means the same as --lines option
argument.
+number
Start displaying each file at line number.
+/string
The string to be searched in each file before
starting to display it.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Print version and exit.
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 ?
Help; display a summary of these commands. If you forget
all other commands, remember this one.
SPACE
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen
size.
z
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen
size. Argument becomes new default.
RETURN
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to 1. Argument
becomes new default.
d or ^D
Scroll k lines. Default is current scroll size, initially
11. Argument becomes new default.
q or Q or INTERRUPT
Exit.
s
Skip forward k lines of text. Defaults to 1.
f
Skip forward k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1.
b or ^B
Skip backwards k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1. Only
works with files, not pipes.
'
Go to the place where the last search started.
=
Display current line number.
/pattern
Search for kth occurrence of regular expression. Defaults
to 1.
n
Search for kth occurrence of last regular expression.
Defaults to 1.
!command or :!command
Execute command in a subshell.
v
Start up an editor at current line. The editor is taken
from the environment variable
VISUAL if defined, or
EDITOR if
VISUAL is not defined, or defaults to
vi(1) if neither
VISUAL nor
EDITOR is defined.
^L
Redraw screen.
:n
Go to kth next file. Defaults to 1.
:p
Go to kth previous file. Defaults to 1.
:f
Display current file name and line number.
.
Repeat previous command.
The more command respects the following environment
variables, if they exist:
MORE
This variable may be set with favored options to
more.
SHELL
Current shell in use (normally set by the shell at login
time).
TERM
The terminal type used by more to get the terminal
characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
VISUAL
The editor the user prefers. Invoked when command key
v is pressed.
EDITOR
The editor of choice when VISUAL is not
specified.
POSIXLY_CORRECT
Disable exit-on-eof (see option -e for more
details).
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.
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.