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<H1>MORE</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: February 2014<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
more - file perusal filter for crt viewing
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>more</B>
[options]
<I>file</I>...
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>more</B>
is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This version is
especially primitive. Users should realize that
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+less">less</A></B>(1)
provides
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+more">more</A></B>(1)
emulation plus extensive enhancements.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
Options are also taken from the environment variable
<B>MORE</B>
(make sure to precede them with a dash
(<B>-</B>))
but command-line options will override those.
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="1"><B>-d</B>
<DD>
Prompt with &quot;[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]&quot;,
and display &quot;[Press 'h' for instructions.]&quot; instead of ringing
the bell when an illegal key is pressed.
<DT id="2"><B>-l</B>
<DD>
Do not pause after any line containing a
<B>^L</B>
(form feed).
<DT id="3"><B>-f</B>
<DD>
Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
<DT id="4"><B>-p</B>
<DD>
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
<B>page</B>.
<DT id="5"><B>-c</B>
<DD>
Do not scroll. Instead, paint each screen from the top, clearing the
remainder of each line as it is displayed.
<DT id="6"><B>-s</B>
<DD>
Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
<DT id="7"><B>-u</B>
<DD>
Suppress underlining.
<DT id="8"><B>-</B><I>number</I>
<DD>
The screen size to use, in
<I>number</I>
of lines.
<DT id="9"><B>+</B><I>number</I>
<DD>
Start displaying each file at line
<I>number</I>.
<DT id="10"><B>+/</B><I>string</I>
<DD>
The
<I>string</I>
to be searched in each file before starting to display it.
<DT id="11"><B>--help</B><DD>
Display help text and exit.
<DT id="12"><B>-V</B>, <B>--version</B><DD>
Display version information and exit.
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<H2>COMMANDS</H2>
Interactive commands for
<B>more</B>
are based on
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+vi">vi</A></B>(1).
Some commands may be preceded by a decimal number, called k in the
descriptions below. In the following descriptions,
<B>^X</B>
means
<B>control-X</B>.
<P>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="13"><DD>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="14"><B>h</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;?</B>
<DD>
Help; display a summary of these commands. If you forget all other
commands, remember this one.
<DT id="15"><B>SPACE</B>
<DD>
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen size.
<DT id="16"><B>z</B>
<DD>
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen size. Argument
becomes new default.
<DT id="17"><B>RETURN</B>
<DD>
Display next k lines of text. Defaults to 1. Argument becomes new default.
<DT id="18"><B>d</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;^D</B>
<DD>
Scroll k lines. Default is current scroll size, initially 11. Argument
becomes new default.
<DT id="19"><B>q</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;Q</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;INTERRUPT</B>
<DD>
Exit.
<DT id="20"><B>s</B>
<DD>
Skip forward k lines of text. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="21"><B>f</B>
<DD>
Skip forward k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="22"><B>b</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;^B</B>
<DD>
Skip backwards k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1. Only works with files,
not pipes.
<DT id="23"><B>'</B>
<DD>
Go to the place where the last search started.
<DT id="24"><B>=</B>
<DD>
Display current line number.
<DT id="25"><B>/pattern</B>
<DD>
Search for kth occurrence of regular expression. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="26"><B>n</B>
<DD>
Search for kth occurrence of last regular expression. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="27"><B>!command</B>&nbsp;or<B>&nbsp;:!command</B>
<DD>
Execute
<I>command</I>
in a subshell.
<DT id="28"><B>v</B>
<DD>
Start up an editor at current line. The editor is taken from the environment
variable
<B>VISUAL</B>
if defined, or
<B>EDITOR</B>
if
<B>VISUAL</B>
is not defined, or defaults
to
<B>vi</B>
if neither
<B>VISUAL</B>
nor
<B>EDITOR</B>
is defined.
<DT id="29"><B>^L</B>
<DD>
Redraw screen.
<DT id="30"><B>:n</B>
<DD>
Go to kth next file. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="31"><B>:p</B>
<DD>
Go to kth previous file. Defaults to 1.
<DT id="32"><B>:f</B>
<DD>
Display current file name and line number.
<DT id="33"><B>.</B>
<DD>
Repeat previous command.
</DL>
</DL>
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<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2>
The
<B>more</B>
command respects the following environment variables, if they exist:
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="34"><B>MORE</B>
<DD>
This variable may be set with favored options to
<B>more</B>.
<DT id="35"><B>SHELL</B>
<DD>
Current shell in use (normally set by the shell at login time).
<DT id="36"><B>TERM</B>
<DD>
The terminal type used by <B>more</B> to get the terminal
characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
<DT id="37"><B>VISUAL</B>
<DD>
The editor the user prefers. Invoked when command key
<I>v</I>
is pressed.
<DT id="38"><B>EDITOR</B>
<DD>
The editor of choice when
<B>VISUAL</B>
is not specified.
</DL>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+less">less</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+vi">vi</A></B>(1)
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<H2>AUTHORS</H2>
Eric Shienbrood, UC Berkeley
<BR>
Modified by Geoff Peck, UCB to add underlining, single spacing
<BR>
Modified by John Foderaro, UCB to add -c and MORE environment variable
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<H2>HISTORY</H2>
The
<B>more</B>
command appeared in 3.0BSD. This man page documents
<B>more</B>
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.
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<H2>AVAILABILITY</H2>
The more command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
Linux Kernel Archive
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<DT id="39"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="40"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="41"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="42"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="43"><A HREF="#lbAF">COMMANDS</A><DD>
<DT id="44"><A HREF="#lbAG">ENVIRONMENT</A><DD>
<DT id="45"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="46"><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHORS</A><DD>
<DT id="47"><A HREF="#lbAJ">HISTORY</A><DD>
<DT id="48"><A HREF="#lbAK">AVAILABILITY</A><DD>
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