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The 'more' command is considered a 'pager' program, which means it displays 1 screen page at a time as it pages through the file. This program allows you to look at the contents of a file one screen at a time, at your speed ..

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more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time.

in simpler words more is a command lets you read a file page by page.

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