More (command)

More (german, more ' ) is a command on the command line for viewing large amounts of data. more is the text page by page on the command line, the issue of additional pages is performed by the user by pressing a key.

POSIX

The syntax of more resembles many other command-line programs:

More [ switch ]

DOS / Windows

The basic syntax is:

| more [ switch ] more [ switch ] << file > more [ switch ] To letter.txt the file to display on the console, the user can use one of the following commands:

More < letter.txt type letter.txt | more history

The more command was originally written in 1978 by Daniel Halbert, then a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Halbert was inspired by his own statement by a message from the PDP - 10 Operating Systems ITS, which when multi-page editions each with the text " - MORE - " waiting for user input to scroll. Exactly this text " - MORE -" indicates the more command also in current English-language versions of Unix and Linux versions, if it is on waiting for user input to scroll. In German operating system versions instead, " - more - " is output.

Was then more strongly developed by Eric Shienbrood and Geoff Peck and expanded to include additional command line options as well as reactions to keyboard input. 1979 was added software distribution 3.0 in the Berkeley and has since become a standard program in all Unix systems become. An imitation of more was included in MS -DOS.

The program less inspired by more, but not only can continue browsing but also backwards.

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