# more > [!tip] > The more command acts like [[cat]] whenever it can. The only way to force more into interactive mode is to make your terminal smaller than the number of lines in the file being displayed. > > Incidentally, this means that it's impossible to send commands to more when using it to display a one-line file. An editor can be invoked from more using `v`; by default this tries to invoke `$VISUAL`, and then `$EDITOR`, and then just [[ViM|Vi]] before giving up. If more can be [[sudo|run with NOPASSWD via sudo]], then an admin shell can be achieved by using `!` to invoke a command (`!/bin/bash`, etc.). Note, however, that this is just executing `$SHELL -c $COMMAND`, which can fail if `$SHELL` is set to something exotic in /etc/passwd. > [!important] > [Exotic shells in /etc/passwd can also cause commands executed via ssh to fail](https://stackoverflow.com/a/52673010) for the same reason.