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Old 10-04-2004, 01:04 PM   #1
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command line help needed


Hey-
i know i can display the directory contents with the "ls" command. How can i make this pause when the screen is full, similar to the dos command "dir /p"?
I have a few directories that have more files than will fit in one screenfull.

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-myk
 
Old 10-04-2004, 01:16 PM   #2
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you can pipe it through a pager like more or less

Code:
ls | less
ls | more
 
Old 10-04-2004, 01:59 PM   #3
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thanks

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Old 10-04-2004, 02:13 PM   #4
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Yes,
ls | less

is a great command. I personally like to add a -l

ls -l | less

which gives you the long name so you can see all the attributes. One other really useful pipe command that you make like is grep, such as, if you were searching for all files that had "bob" in them, it could go something like this:

ls -l | grep bob

This will find bob anywhere in a file, and since a lot of the time when you're looking at really large directories you really only want certain files, so this can be really helpful.
 
Old 10-04-2004, 02:16 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by Malice132
ls -l | grep bob
Overkill.

ls -l *bob*
does the same and is less typing ;)


Cheers,
Tink
 
Old 10-08-2004, 12:10 AM   #6
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ls -l *bob*
does the same and is less typing
Sweet. It's always the little things that are nice.
 
  


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