pg (Unix)

pg is a terminal pager program on Unix and Unix-like systems for viewing text files.

pg uses an interface similar to vi, but commands are different.

[1] As of 2018, pg has been removed[2] from the POSIX specification, but is still included in util-linux.

pg is the name of the historical utility on BSD UNIX systems.

It was written to address the limit of the historical more command not being able to traverse the input backward.

Example output of the pg command in xterm .