NAME

more - file perusal filter for crt viewing SYNOPSIS

more [-dlfpcsu [-num [+/ pattern [+ linenum [unrenderable node] DESCRIPTION

More is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This version is especially primitve. Users should realize that less(1) provides more(1) emulation and exten- sive enhancements. OPTIONS

Command line options are described below. Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE (make sure to pre- cede them with a dash (``-'')) but command line options will override them.

• num

This option specifies an integer which is the screensize (in lines).-dmore will prompt the user with the message COMMANDS

Interactive commands for more are based on vi(1). Some com- mands 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. Ifyou forget all the other commands, remember thisone.

SPACEDisplay next k lines of text. Defaults to cur-rent screen size.zDisplay next k lines of text. Defaults to cur-rent screen size. Argument becomes new default.RETURNDisplay next k lines of text. Defaults to 1.Argument becomes new default.d or ^DScroll k lines. Default is current scroll size,initially 11. Argument becomes new default.q or Q or INTERRUPT Exit.sSkip forward k lines of text. Defaults to 1.fSkip forward k screenfuls of text. Defaults to1.b or ^BSkip backwards k screenfuls of text. Defaults to1. Only works with files, not pipes.'Go to place where previous search started.=Display current line number./patternSearch for kth occurrence of regular expression.Defaults to 1.nSearch for kth occurrence of last r.e. Defaultsto 1.!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 spac- ing Modified by John Foderaro, UCB to add -c and MORE environ- ment variable HISTORY

The more command appeared in 3.0 BSD . This man page docu- ments more version 5.19 (Berkeley 6/29/88), which is cur- rently 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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