Commands for the more (or less) environments

 

command

meaning

<space> (pressing the spacebar)

advance forward one page

display the next page of the current file

b

back

display the previous page of the current file

q

quit

quit displaying this file and return to the shell or whatever application initiated the display of this file

<enter>

(pressing the return or enter key)

advance forward one line

display just the next one line of the current file

/string

advance forward to the next occurrence of the sequence of characters indicated by string

The argument to the search command shown here as string needs to be replaced with any sequence of characters you would like to find in the current file.