more

more [OPTIONS] FILE...

Display the contents of a text file

Options

--silent, -d

Display help instead of ringing bell when an illegal key is pressed

--logical, -l

Do not pause after any line containing a ^L (form feed)

--exit-on-eof, -e

Exit on End-Of-File

--no-pause, -f

Count logical lines, rather than screen lines

--print-over, -p

Do not scroll, clear screen and display text

--clean-print, -c

Do not scroll, display text and clean line ends

--squeeze, -s

Squeeze multiple blank lines into one

--plain, -u

Suppress underlining

--lines=<number>, -n <number>

The number of lines per screen full

--number

Same as –lines option argument

--from-line=<number>, -F <number>

Start displaying each file at line number

--pattern=<pattern>, -P <pattern>

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

Path to the files to be read

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 under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.