More - Definition and Overview

The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is more.

more(1) is a program on the UNIX system that receives textual input from a file or from another program one screenful at a time, passes it as output, and waits for the user to press a key at the terminal before repeating the process. (This type of program is called a pager.) When the input ends, more dumps all buffered output to the terminal.

According to the manual page, more appeared in BSD 3.0, which was released in 1978. A clone of more was added to MS-DOS 2.0.

By default, the online manual pages are viewed through more.

An improved version called less allows scrolling both forward and backward through the text.

More can also refer to:

• The More language of Burkina Faso
• St. Sir Thomas More
• The album Music From the Film More by Pink Floyd, which is a soundtrack to the film More directed by Barbet Schroeder.
• Mores in sociology.
• The short film More, by Mark Osborne