In order to navigate through the file line by line press Enter key or press Spacebar key to navigate one page at a time, the page being your current terminal screen size. To exit the command just press q key.

How do you exit a list in terminal?

Type ‘q’ and it will do the job. Whenever you are at the terminal and have a similar predicament keep in mind also to try and type ‘quit’, ‘exit’ as well as the abort key combination ‘Ctrl + C’. for windows : Ctrl + q and c for exit the running situation .

What is the drawback of using more command?

The ‘more’ program

But one limitation is you can scroll in forward direction only, not backwards. That means, you can scroll down, but can’t go up. Update: A fellow Linux user has pointed out that more command do allow backward scrolling.