NAME¶
more —
file perusal filter for crt
viewing
SYNOPSIS¶
more |
[-dlfpcsu]
[-num]
[+/pattern]
[+linenum]
[file ...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
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¶
Command-line options are described below. Options are also taken from the
environment variable
MORE
(make sure to precede them
with a dash (``-'')) but command line options will override them.
- -num
- This option specifies an integer which is the screen size
(in lines).
- -d
- more will prompt the user with the
message "[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]" and will
display "[Press 'h' for instructions.]" instead of ringing the
bell when an illegal key is pressed.
- -l
- more usually treats ^L
(form feed) as a special character, and will pause after any line that
contains a form feed. The -l option will prevent this
behavior.
- -f
- Causes more to count logical, rather than
screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
- -p
- 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
- Do not scroll. Instead, paint each screen from the top,
clearing the remainder of each line as it is displayed.
- -s
- Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
- -u
- Suppress underlining.
- +/
- The +/ option specifies a string that
will be searched for before each file is displayed.
- +num
- Start at line number num.
COMMANDS¶
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 the 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 place where previous search started.
- =
- Display current line number.
- /pattern
- Search for kth occurrence of regular expression. Defaults
to 1.
- n
- Search for kth occurrence of last r.e. Defaults to 1.
- !<cmd>
or :!<cmd>
- Execute <cmd> 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" 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
ENVIRONMENT¶
More utilizes 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
- Specifies terminal type, used by more to get the terminal
characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
SEE ALSO¶
vi(1),
less(1)
AUTHORS¶
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
HISTORY¶
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.
AVAILABILITY¶
The more command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.