more versus view

[confuseddddd]

Could someone explain to me the difference between more versus view??? I have a file that when viewed using more, no carriage control characters (^M) appear but when using view the carriage control characters appear.

I have been asked to clean the data up and was just going to remove the ^M but now not even sure that exists in the file.
Can anyone help me???

 

[tikual]

'more' for viewing the file content but it cannot view the control key(^M). 'view' can view any control key in the file and you can use all vi command.
In Sun Platform, you can use dos2unix to remove the control key from the file.

 

[usige]

view is really the same as calling: vi -R. In other words it opens the file in vi in read only mode.