CLI....ls (or similar command)...formatting output
 

In command line, say for instance I want to see a listing of all files and folders of a certain directory. It outputs and is obviously alphabetized...say for instance I wanted to see all the output to be formatted on the screen regardless how big the listing may be. I want the output put into columns (rather than just 1) so I can see a listing of all files and folders. How would I do this? I went through the ls command with its different options but can't pinpoint how to do it. Any ideas?

I'm not sure exactly what you want. Do you want ls to print all of the contents of a directory on a single screen regarless of how many items are in the directory? Don't think you'll be able to do that---just imagine a directory with 1 million items.

You could do a "ls -s | more" and then hit the space bar to cycle through screens.

Basically that's what I was shooting for....I know a million is pretty far fetched...just thought there may be some way to display a couple hundred items decently.