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MORE(1) User Commands MORE(1)
more - display the contents of a file in a terminal
more [options] file ...
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 are also taken from the environment variable MORE (make
sure to precede them with a dash (-)) but command-line options
will override those.
-d, --silent
Prompt with "[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]", and
display "[Press 'h' for instructions.]" instead of ringing the
bell when an illegal key is pressed.
-l, --logical
Do not pause after any line containing a ^L (form feed).
-e, --exit-on-eof
Exit on End-Of-File, enabled by default if POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable is not set or if not executed on
terminal.
-f, --no-pause
Count logical lines, rather than screen lines (i.e., long
lines are not folded).
-p, --print-over
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, --clean-print
Do not scroll. Instead, paint each screen from the top,
clearing the remainder of each line as it is displayed.
-s, --squeeze
Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
-u, --plain
Suppress underlining. This option is silently ignored as
backwards compatibility.
-n, --lines number
Specify the number of lines per screenful. The number argument
is a positive decimal integer. The --lines option shall
override any values obtained from any other source, such as
number of lines reported by terminal.
-number
A numeric option means the same as --lines option argument.
+number
Start displaying each file at line number.
+/string
The string to be searched in each file before starting to
display it.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Display version and exit.
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
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 the place where the last search started.
=
Display current line number.
/pattern
Search for kth occurrence of regular expression. Defaults to
1.
n
Search for kth occurrence of last regular expression. Defaults
to 1.
!command or :!command
Execute command 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(1) 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 filename and line number.
.
Repeat previous command.
When either MORESECURE or PAGERSECURE is set, more will run in
"secure" mode and effectively disable the following commands:
!command or :!command
Execute command in a subshell.
v
Start up an editor.
EDITOR
Override the default editor when VISUAL is not specified.
MORE
Specify favored options for more.
MORESECURE
Run more in "secure" mode. See SECURITY for details.
MORE_SHELL_LINES
Specify the number of lines the shell prompt occupies on the
terminal screen. If this value is set, the number of lines for
the shell prompt is subtracted from the number of lines used
to print a page on the screen. The value must be greater than
zero and less than the current number of lines per screen;
otherwise it is silently ignored. This is useful in situations
where the printed page has to remain on the screen after
exiting more(1) without scrolling up too much as the shell
prints a new prompt.
PAGERSECURE
Equivalent to MORESECURE.
POSIXLY_CORRECT
Disable exit-on-eof (see option -e for more details).
SHELL
Override the default shell. If SHELL is not set, the shell
from the user’s passwd(5) entry is used. If no shell is
defined there either, /bin/sh is used as the fallback.
TERM
Specify the terminal type used by more to get the terminal
characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
VISUAL
Override the default editor to use when command key v is
pressed.
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.
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.
Modified by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo to add MORESECURE,
PAGERSECURE and MORE_SHELL_LINES environment variables, and a
SECURITY section
less(1), vi(1)
For bug reports, use the issue tracker
<https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
The more command is part of the util-linux package which can be
downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page is
part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux utilities)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2026-05-24. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
was found in the repository was 2026-05-20.) If you discover any
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util-linux 2.43.devel-739-eee2e 2026-05-24 MORE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: bash(1), colcrt(1), dpkg(1), dpkg-query(1), homectl(1), importctl(1), journalctl(1), less(1), localectl(1), loginctl(1), machinectl(1), more(1), portablectl(1), storagectl(1), systemctl(1), systemd(1), systemd-analyze(1), systemd-inhibit(1), systemd-nspawn(1), systemd-vmspawn(1), timedatectl(1), updatectl(1), userdbctl(1), readline(3), environ(7), systemd-tmpfiles(8)
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