These are 2 probably simple questions but I've searched on here and googled around and I'm still lost.

First, I was wondering if there is a way to view stuff in the terminal that is off the screen if you aren't in a window manager. For example, if I did an apt-cache search blah, and I get 400 results and I want to go back and see all of them.

Another simple problem I've run across is wanting to copy the contents of a folder into another folder but not the first folder itself. So if I wanted to put the contents of lets say folderA into folderB, if I do (assuming they are in the same directory):

cp -r folderA folderB

this moves folderA with its contents into folderB, but I just want the contents of folderA to go directly into B. Easy to work around but just wondering if there is a way to make life a bit easier. Thanks in advance, and sorry for these silly questions

If you know the output of a command is going to be over 1 screen's length, you can pipe it through less. So your command would be apt-cache search blah | less

The copy I think you are looking for would be
copy ./folderA/* ./folderb but maybe I'm reading the question wrong.

Sorry for the confusing question, the ./folder/* does the trick with cp. Thanks

oops, I actually typed copy as the command. Stupid DOS commands, I can't get them out of my head.

If you press either ctrl, alt or shift with the page-up key it will scroll up the screen, I can never remember which - I normally end up trying all three combinations before I get it