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User Commands more(1)
NAME
more, page - browse or page through a text file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/more [-cdflrsuw] [-lines] [ + linenumber] [ +/ pat-
tern] [file...]
/usr/bin/page [-cdflrsuw] [-lines] [ + linenumber] [ +/ pat-
tern] [file...]
/usr/xpg4/bin/more [-cdeisu] [-n number] [-p command] [-
t tagstring] [file...]
/usr/xpg4/bin/more [-cdeisu] [-n number] [ + command] [-
t tagstring] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The more utility is a filter that displays the contents of a
text file on the terminal, one screenful at a time. It nor-
mally pauses after each screenful. /usr/bin/more then prints
--More-- and /usr/xpg4/bin/more then prints file at the bot-
tom of the screen. If more is reading from a file rather
than a pipe, the percentage of characters displayed so far
is also shown.
The more utility scrolls up to display one more line in
response to a RETURN character. more displays another
screenful in response to a SPACE character. Other commands
are listed below.
The page utility clears the screen before displaying the
next screenful of text. page only provides a one-line over-
lap between screens.
The more utility sets the terminal to NOECHO mode, so that
the output can be continuous. Commands that you type do not
normally show up on your terminal, except for the / and !
commands.
The /usr/bin/more utility exits after displaying the last
specified file. /usr/xpg4/bin/more prompts for a command at
the last line of the last specified file.
If the standard output is not a terminal, more acts just
like cat(1), except that a header is printed before each
file in a series.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/more
and /usr/xpg4/bin/more:
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-c Clears before displaying. Redraws the screen
instead of scrolling for faster displays. This
option is ignored if the terminal does not have the
ability to clear to the end of a line.
-d Displays error messages rather than ringing the
terminal bell if an unrecognized command is used.
This is helpful for inexperienced users.
-s Squeeze. Replaces multiple blank lines with a sin-
gle blank line. This is helpful when viewing
nroff(1) output on the screen.
/usr/bin/more
The following options are supported for /usr/bin/more only:
-f Does not fold long lines. This is useful
when lines contain nonprinting characters or
escape sequences, such as those generated
when nroff(1) output is piped through ul(1).
-l Does not treat FORMFEED characters
(Control-l) as page breaks. If -l is not
used, more pauses to accept commands after
any line containing a ^L character
(Control-l). Also, if a file begins with a
FORMFEED, the screen is cleared before the
file is printed.
-r Normally, more ignores control characters
that it does not interpret in some way. The
-r option causes these to be displayed as ^C
where C stands for any such control charac-
ter.
-u Suppresses generation of underlining escape
sequences. Normally, more handles underlin-
ing, such as that produced by nroff(1), in a
manner appropriate to the terminal. If the
terminal can perform underlining or has a
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stand-out mode, more supplies appropriate
escape sequences as called for in the text
file.
-w Normally, more exits when it comes to the
end of its input. With -w, however, more
prompts and waits for any key to be struck
before exiting.
-lines Displays the indicated number of lines in
each screenful, rather than the default (the
number of lines in the terminal screen less
two).
+linenumber Start up at linenumber.
+/pattern Start up two lines above the line containing
the regular expression pattern. Note: Unlike
editors, this construct should not end with
a `/.' If it does, then the trailing slash
is taken as a character in the search pat-
tern.
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/more
only:
-e Exits immediately after writing the last
line of the last file in the argument list.
-i Performs pattern matching in searches
without regard to case.
-n number Specifies the number of lines per screenful.
The number argument is a positive decimal
integer. The -n option overrides any values
obtained from the environment.
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-p command For each file examined, initially executes
+command the more command in the command argument. If
the command is a positioning command, such
as a line number or a regular expression
search, set the current position to
represent the final results of the command,
without writing any intermediate lines of
the file. For example, the two commands:
more -p 1000j file
more -p 1000G file
are equivalent and start the display with
the current position at line 1000, bypassing
the lines that j would write and scroll off
the screen if it had been issued during the
file examination. If the positioning command
is unsuccessful, the first line in the file
will be the current position.
-t tagstring Writes the screenful of the file containing
the tag named by the tagstring argument. See
the ctags(1) utility.
-u Treats a backspace character as a printable
control character, displayed as a ^H
(Control-h), suppressing backspacing and the
special handling that produces underlined or
standout-mode text on some terminal types.
Also, does not ignore a carriage-return
character at the end of a line.
If both the -t tagstring and -p command (or the obsolescent
+command) options are given, the -t tagstring is processed
first.
USAGE
Environment
more uses the terminal's terminfo(4) entry to determine its
display characteristics.
more looks in the environment variable MORE for any preset
options. For instance, to page through files using the -c
mode by default, set the value of this variable to -c.
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(Normally, the command sequence to set up this environment
variable is placed in the .login or .profile file).
Commands
The commands take effect immediately. It is not necessary to
type a carriage return unless the command requires a file,
command, tagstring, or pattern. Up to the time when the com-
mand character itself is given, the user may type the line
kill character to cancel the numerical argument being
formed. In addition, the user may type the erase character
to redisplay the `--More--(xx%)' or file message.
In the following commands, i is a numerical argument (1 by
default).
i<SPACE> Display another screenful, or i more lines
if i is specified.
i<RETURN> Display another line, or i more lines, if
specified.
ib (Control-b) Skip back i screenfuls and then
i^B print a screenful.
id (Control-d) Scroll forward one half screen-
i^D ful or i more lines. If i is specified, the
count becomes the default for subsequent d
and u commands.
if Skip i screens full and then print a screen-
ful.
h Help. Give a description of all the more
commands.
^L (Control-l) Refresh.
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in Search for the ith occurrence of the last
pattern entered.
q Exit from more.
Q
is Skip i lines and then print a screenful.
v Drop into the vi editor at the current line
of the current file.
iz Same as <SPACE>, except that i, if present,
becomes the new default number of lines per
screenful.
= Display the current line number.
i/pattern Search forward for the ith occurrence of the
regular expression pattern. Display the
screenful starting two lines before the line
that contains the ith match for the regular
expression pattern, or the end of a pipe,
whichever comes first. If more is displaying
a file and there is no match, its position
in the file remains unchanged. Regular
expressions can be edited using erase and
kill characters. Erasing back past the first
column cancels the search command.
!command Invoke a shell to execute command. The char-
acters % and !, when used within command are
replaced with the current filename and the
previous shell command, respectively. If
there is no current filename, % is not
expanded. Prepend a backslash to these char-
acters to escape expansion.
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:f Display the current filename and line
number.
i:n Skip to the ith next filename given in the
command line, or to the last filename in the
list if i is out of range.
i:p Skip to the ith previous filename given in
the command line, or to the first filename
if i is out of range. If given while more is
positioned within a file, go to the begin-
ning of the file. If more is reading from a
pipe, more simply rings the terminal bell.
:q Exit from more (same as q or Q).
:Q
/usr/bin/more
The following commands are available only in /usr/bin/more:
' Single quote. Go to the point from which the last
search started. If no search has been performed in
the current file, go to the beginning of the file.
. Dot. Repeat the previous command.
^\ Halt a partial display of text. more stops sending
output, and displays the usual --More-- prompt.
Some output is lost as a result.
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
The following commands are available only in
/usr/xpg4/bin/more:
i^F (Control-f) Skip i screens full and print a
screenful. (Same as if.)
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^G (Control-g) Display the current line number
(same as =).
ig Go to line number i with the default of the
first line in the file.
iG Go to line number i with the default of the
Last line in the file.
ij Display another line, or i more lines, if
specified. (Same as i<RETURN>.)
ik Scroll backwards one or i lines, if speci-
fied.
mletter Mark the current position with the name
letter.
N Reverse direction of search.
r Refresh the screen.
R Refresh the screen, discarding any buffered
input.
iu (Control-u) Scroll backwards one half a
i^U screen of i lines, if specified. If i is
specified, the count becomes the new default
for subsequent d and u commands.
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ZZ Exit from more (same as q).
:e file Examine (display) a new file. If no file is
specified, the current file is redisplayed.
:t tagstring Go to the tag named by the tagstring argu-
ment and scroll/rewrite the screen with the
tagged line in the current position. See the
ctags utility.
'letter Return to the position that was previously
marked with the name letter.
'' Return to the position from which the last
move of more than a screenful was made.
Defaults to the beginning of the file.
i?[!]pattern Search backward in the file for the ith line
containing the pattern. The ! specifies to
search backward for the ith line that does
not contain the pattern.
i/!pattern Search forward in the file for the ith line
that does not contain the pattern.
![command] Invoke a shell or the specified command.
Large File Behavior
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of more
and page when encountering files greater than or equal to 2
Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of more: LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_COLLATE (/usr/xpg4/bin/more only), LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES,
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NLSPATH, and TERM.
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
The following environment variables also affect the execu-
tion of /usr/xpg4/bin/more:
COLUMNS Overrides the system selected horizontal
screen size.
EDITOR Used by the v command to select an editor.
LINES Overrides the system selected vertical
screen size. The -n option has precedence
over LINES in determining the number of
lines in a screen.
MORE A string specifying options as described in
the OPTIONS section, above. As in a command
line, The options must be separated by blank
characters and each option specification
must start with a -. Any command line
options are processed after those specified
in MORE as though the command line were:
more $MORE options operands
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/usr/lib/more.help help file for /usr/bin/more and
/usr/bin/page only.
ATTRIBUTES
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
/usr/bin/more /usr/bin/page
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | Not enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWxcu4 |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | Enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | Standard |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
cat(1), csh(1), ctags(1), man(1), nroff(1), script(1),
sh(1), ul(1), environ(4), terminfo(4), attributes(5),
environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
/usr/bin/more /usr/bin/page
regcomp(3C)
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
regex(5)
NOTES
/usr/bin/more
Skipping backwards is too slow on large files.
/usr/xpg4/bin/more
This utility will not behave correctly if the terminal is
not set up properly.
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