Command Reference Guide
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more(1) more(1)
TERM Determines the name of the terminal type.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
APPLICATION USAGE
When the standard output is not a terminal, none of the filter-modification options is effective. This is based
on historical practice. For example, a typical implementation of man pipes its output through more -s to
squeeze excess white space for terminal users. When man is piped to lp, however, it is undesirable for this
squeezing to happen.
EXAMPLES
To view a simple file, use:
more filename
To preview nroff output, use a command resembling:
nroff -mm +2 doc.n | more -s
If the file contains tables, use:
tbl file | nroff -mm | col | more -s
To display file stuff in a fifteen line-window and convert multiple adjacent blank lines into a single blank
line:
more -s -n 15 stuff
To examine each file with its last screenful:
more -p G file1 file2
To examine each file starting with line 100 in the current position (third line, so line 98 is the first line writ-
ten):
more -p 100g file1 file2
To examine the file that contains the tagstring tag with line 30 in the current position:
more -t tag -p 30g
WARNINGS
Standard error, file descriptor 2, is normally used for input during interactive use and should not be
redirected (see Input/Output section in the manpage of the shell in use).
FILES
/usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/* compiled terminal capability data base
AUTHOR
more was developed by Mark Nudleman, University of California, Berkeley, OSF, and HP.
SEE ALSO
csh(1), man(1), pg(1), sh(1), term(4), terminfo(4), environ(5), lang(5), regexp(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
more: XPG4
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