There are a number of utilities that enable you to view text files when you’re at the command line. One of them is more.
more is similar to another tool I wrote about called less. The main difference is that more only allows you to move forward in a file.
While that may seem limiting, it has some useful features that are good to know about. Let’s take a quick look at what more can do and how to use it.
The basics
Let’s say you have a text file and want to read it at the command line. Just open the terminal, pop into the directory that contains the file, and type this command:
more <filename>
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