CentOS Linux Server Guide

Displaying text by pages in CentOS Linux

more command is used to output or display text one screen at a time.

This command different from cat command. The cat command will only display the last part of the file on screen. However, using more command, you will can viewing the entire content of the file in page by page simply pressing spacebar.

Command and Options:

more [options] filename

- uniq command by default (without using any options) is to remove any duplicate lines only.

Option:

Options Description

-s squeezing multiple blank lines into one

-d prompt user with a message suggesting the next session

-c displaying on each screen and clear the remaining of each line as it is displayed.

+/character string specifies a string that will be searched for before each file is displayed, and displays text text two lines before the string appears at first time

Examples:

The the following example will display file content on screen one at a time

more mail.log

The following example example will squeeze multiple blank lines into one

uniq -s A.log

The following example is combining list command so that the result can be listed one page at a time

ls -l | more

Keyboard Operations:

Keyboard key function

space bar scroll down one screen at a time

enter scroll one line at a time

q quit the view operation mode

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