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:p Skip to previous file, or numth previous if an argument is

specified.

:f Print current filename and line number.

. Re-execute previous command.

Examples

Page through file in “clear” mode, and display prompts:

more -cd file

Format doc to the screen, removing underlines:

nroff doc | more -u

View the manpage for the more command; begin at the first

appearance of the word “scroll”:

man more|more +/scroll

mount

mount [options] [[device] directory]

System administration command. Mount a file structure. The file

structure on device is mounted on directory.Ifnodevice is speci-

fied, mount looks for an entry in /etc/fstab to find out what device

is associated with the given directory. The directory, which must

already exist and should be empty, becomes the name of the root

of the newly mounted file structure. If mount is invoked with no

arguments, it displays the name of each mounted device, the direc-

tory on which it is mounted, its filesystem type, and any mount

options associated with the device.

Options

-a Mount all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. Use -t to limit this to

all filesystems of a particular type.

--bind olddirectory newdirectory

Bind a mounted subtree to a new location. The tree will be

available from both the old and new directory. This binding

does not ...