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1MORE(1)                   BSD General Commands Manual                  MORE(1)
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NAME

4     more — file perusal filter for crt viewing
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SYNOPSIS

7     more [-dlfpcsu] [-num] [+/pattern] [+linenum] [file ...]
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DESCRIPTION

10     More is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time.  This
11     version is especially primitive.  Users should realize that less(1) pro‐
12     vides more(1) emulation and extensive enhancements.
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OPTIONS

15     Command line options are described below.  Options are also taken from
16     the environment variable MORE (make sure to precede them with a dash
17     (``-'')) but command line options will override them.
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19     -num  This option specifies an integer which is the screen size (in
20           lines).
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22     -d    more will prompt the user with the message "[Press space to con‐
23           tinue, 'q' to quit.]" and will display "[Press 'h' for instruc‐
24           tions.]" instead of ringing the bell when an illegal key is
25           pressed.
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27     -l    more usually treats ^L (form feed) as a special character, and will
28           pause after any line that contains a form feed.  The -l option will
29           prevent this behavior.
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31     -f    Causes more to count logical, rather than screen lines (i.e., long
32           lines are not folded).
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34     -p    Do not scroll.  Instead, clear the whole screen and then display
35           the text.
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37     -c    Do not scroll.  Instead, paint each screen from the top, clearing
38           the remainder of each line as it is displayed.
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40     -s    Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
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42     -u    Suppress underlining.
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44     +/    The +/ option specifies a string that will be searched for before
45           each file is displayed.
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47     +num  Start at line number num.
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COMMANDS

50     Interactive commands for more are based on vi(1).  Some commands may be
51     preceded by a decimal number, called k in the descriptions below.  In the
52     following descriptions, ^X means control-X.
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54     h or ?      Help: display a summary of these commands.  If you forget all
55                 the other commands, remember this one.
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57     SPACE       Display next k lines of text.  Defaults to current screen
58                 size.
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60     z           Display next k lines of text.  Defaults to current screen
61                 size.  Argument becomes new default.
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63     RETURN      Display next k lines of text.  Defaults to 1.  Argument
64                 becomes new default.
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66     d or ^D     Scroll k lines.  Default is current scroll size, initially
67                 11.  Argument becomes new default.
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69     q or Q or INTERRUPT
70                 Exit.
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72     s           Skip forward k lines of text.  Defaults to 1.
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74     f           Skip forward k screenfuls of text.  Defaults to 1.
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76     b or ^B     Skip backwards k screenfuls of text.  Defaults to 1.  Only
77                 works with files, not pipes.
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79     '           Go to place where previous search started.
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81     =           Display current line number.
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83     /pattern    Search for kth occurrence of regular expression.  Defaults to
84                 1.
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86     n           Search for kth occurrence of last r.e.  Defaults to 1.
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88     !<cmd> or :!<cmd>
89                 Execute <cmd> in a subshell
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91     v           Start up an editor at current line.  The editor is taken from
92                 the environment variable VISUAL if defined, or EDITOR if VIS‐
93                 UAL is not defined, or defaults to "vi" if neither VISUAL nor
94                 EDITOR is defined.
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96     ^L          Redraw screen
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98     :n          Go to kth next file.  Defaults to 1.
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100     :p          Go to kth previous file.  Defaults to 1.
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102     :f          Display current file name and line number
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104     .           Repeat previous command
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ENVIRONMENT

107     More utilizes the following environment variables, if they exist:
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109     MORE        This variable may be set with favored options to more.
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111     SHELL       Current shell in use (normally set by the shell at login
112                 time).
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114     TERM        Specifies terminal type, used by more to get the terminal
115                 characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
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AUTHORS

121     Eric Shienbrood, UC Berkeley
122     Modified by Geoff Peck, UCB to add underlining, single spacing
123     Modified by John Foderaro, UCB to add -c and MORE environment variable
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HISTORY

126     The more command appeared in 3.0BSD.  This man page documents more ver‐
127     sion 5.19 (Berkeley 6/29/88), which is currently in use in the Linux com‐
128     munity.  Documentation was produced using several other versions of the
129     man page, and extensive inspection of the source code.
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AVAILABILITY

132     The more command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
133     from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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135Linux 0.98                     December 25, 1992                    Linux 0.98