more

more [OPTIONS] <FILE>...

Display the contents of a text file

Options

--print-over, -c

Do not scroll, display text and clean line ends

--silent, -d

Display help instead of ringing bell

--clean-print, -p

Do not scroll, clean screen and display text

--squeeze, -s

Squeeze multiple blank lines into one

--plain, -u

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

Display file beginning from line number

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

The number of lines per screen full

--number

Same as --lines

Path to the files to be read

Examples

Open a file:

more {{path/to/file}}

Open a file displaying from a specific line:

more +{{line_number}} {{path/to/file}}

Display help:

more --help

Go to the next page:

<Space>

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

/{{something}}

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.