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linux3[274]% more unix.txt

   #[1]Creative Commons [2]copyright

   It costs US$10 an hour to run Wikimedia websites. You can [3]donate
   here (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising) to help us
   raise $50,000 to keep our websites running smoothly. We have less than
   $15,000 to go thanks to [4]all those who have donated
   (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2004/Q4/Most_recent_d
   ay)!

Unix

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

   UNIX  (or Unix) is a [5]portable, multi-task and multi-user
   [6]computer [7]operating system originally developed by a group of
   [8]AT&T [9]Bell Labs employees including [10]Ken Thompson, [11]Dennis
   Ritchie and [12]Douglas McIlroy.
   Contents
   [13]1 History
   [14]2 Standards
   [15]3 Free Unix-like operating systems
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+n

When more is given the +n, where n is a number argument, it will display the file, beginning on that line.

cat -n unix-num.txt
     1
     2     #[1]Creative Commons [2]copyright
     3
     4     It costs US$10 an hour to run Wikimedia websites. You can [3]donate
     5     here (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising) to help us
     6     raise $50,000 to keep our websites running smoothly. We have less than
     7     $15,000 to go thanks to [4]all those who have donated
     8     (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2004/Q4/Most_recent_d
     9     ay)!
    10
    11  Unix
    12
    13  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    14
    15     UNIX  (or Unix) is a [5]portable, multi-task and multi-user
    16     [6]computer [7]operating system originally developed by a group of
    17     [8]AT&T [9]Bell Labs employees including [10]Ken Thompson, [11]Dennis
    18     Ritchie and [12]Douglas McIlroy.
    19     Contents
    20     [13]1 History
    21     [14]2 Standards
    22     [15]3 Free Unix-like operating systems

    ... (output snipped) ...
linux3[282]% more +13 unix.txt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

   UNIX  (or Unix) is a [5]portable, multi-task and multi-user
   [6]computer [7]operating system originally developed by a group of
   [8]AT&T [9]Bell Labs employees including [10]Ken Thompson, [11]Dennis
   Ritchie and [12]Douglas McIlroy.
   Contents
   [13]1 History
   [14]2 Standards
   [15]3 Free Unix-like operating systems
   [16]4 Impact
   [17]5 Branding
   [18]6 Canonical UNIX Commands
   [19]7 See also
   [20]8 External links
   [[21]edit]

History

   The early development of what is believed to be one of the most
   influential operating systems in history was unique, and nobody would
   have predicted the growth of UNIX after its first incarnation.
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Daniel J. Hood
Last modified: Thu Sep 30 13:59:00 EDT 2004