Linux Commands: more and less

The command more allows you to view the content of a text file simply by typing "more myfile" in a terminal window, where "myfile" would be the text file of interest. There is no need to start up an editor or word processor.

The default behavior is that the file content scrolls up one screen height at a time, and the space bar is used to advance to the next page. The command less is a more sophisticated version of more ("less is more"). It can scroll backwards and has many more options than more.