NAME¶

more - Display the contents of a text file

SYNOPSIS¶

more [-d|--silent] [-l|--logical] [-e|--exit-on-eof] [-f|--no-pause] [-p|--print-over] [-c|--clean-print] [-s|--squeeze] [-n|--lines] [--number] [-F|--from-line] [-P|--pattern] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

DESCRIPTION¶

Display the contents of a text file

OPTIONS¶

-d, --silent

Display help instead of ringing 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

-f, --no-pause

Count logical lines, rather than screen lines

-p, --print-over

Do not scroll, clear screen and display text

-c, --clean-print

Do not scroll, display text and clean line ends

-s, --squeeze

Squeeze multiple blank lines into one

-n, --lines <number>

The number of lines per screen full

--number

Same as --lines option argument

-F, --from-line <number>

Start displaying each file at line number

-P, --pattern <pattern>

The string to be searched in each file before starting to display it

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[files]

Path to the files to be read

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES¶

Open a file:

more path/to/file

Display a specific line:

more +line_number path/to/file

Go to the next page:

<Space>

Search for a string (press `<n>` to go to the next match):

</>something<Enter>

Exit:

<q>

Display help about interactive commands:

<h>

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.