MORE(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 6 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

hey bestie, welcome to MORE(1) — that's sheer section 1, General Commands Manual energy — and it's all about more: display the contents of a text file. that's the whole job description. no cap. 🫶

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

more [OPTIONS] FILE...

like, you give it options, you give it files, it does the thing. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Display the contents of a text file ✨

that's it. that's the plot. you hand it a file, it shows you the file, you vibe, you leave. main character energy fr fr 🌸

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so here's the full menu, every single one, no skipping, we do not gatekeep here 👑

  • -d, --silent — display help instead of ringing the bell when an illegal key is pressed. so when your fingers do a little chaos, it's giving helpful instead of BEEP. 🔔❌
  • -f, --logical — count logical lines, rather than screen lines.
  • -e, --exit-on-eof — exit on End-Of-File.
  • -l, --no-pause — do not pause after any line containing a ^L (form feed).
  • -p, --print-over — do not scroll, clear screen and display text.
  • -c, --clean-print — do not scroll, display text and clean line ends.
  • -s, --squeeze — squeeze multiple blank lines into one. decluttering, we love to see it 🧚
  • -n, --lines <number> — the number of lines per screen full.
  • --number — same as the --lines option argument.
  • -F, --from-line <number> — start displaying each file at line number.
  • -P, --pattern <pattern> — the string to be searched in each file before starting to display it.
  • -h, --help — print help.
  • -V, --version — print version.
  • [files] — path to the files to be read.

🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 😌

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

tutorial time, bestie, let's gooo 🎀

Open a file:

more path/to/file

Display a specific line:

more +line_number path/to/file

Go to the next page:

<Space>

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

</>something<Enter>

Exit:

<q>

Display help about interactive commands:

<h>
the examples are provided by the tldr-pages project https://tldr.sh under the CC BY 4.0 License. also pls note: as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. it's not you, it's the work in progress 🙈

and that's the page!! 💜 this whole thing came from uutils coreutils v0.12.0, dated 2026-09-25, and it lives at MORE(1) — go forth and read your files like the icon you are 👑🌈

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