Ok - newbie here... But I can't seem to find any way to make the 'ls' command do a 'paginate' function. Like doing 'dir /p' in DOS. It's a way of viewing a large bunch of files a page (screen) at a time.

I know there's GOTTA be a way to do this - but I can't find it! I'm working from the Linux commandline to copy some files to floppy from the /etc folder. There are LOTS of files in /etc...

Why am I doing this? Because there's a problem with copying files to floppy from inside any GUI on my Linux box. I can only copy to floppy at the CLI right now. See my other posts for the details.

Thanks!

ls | less

Uh, close. 'ls | less' gives a 1 line at a time display in a single column. Better than nothing.

But what I want is a multiple column display, that scrolls one screen at a time. Is that possible?

try `ls -C | more`

Tried that too. Gave me a single column of files that I could scroll down, same as the first command did.

Try man ls - that will give you the options/switches to use with 'ls'.

You could try ls -m | less

I don't understand what's wrong with the choices being given to you. 'ls | less' works just like 'dir /p'. For multiple columns, use Use:

spacebar or pagedown - to scroll down one screen
pageup - to scroll up one screen
arrow keys - to move up and down the screen

'man less' for others.

or you can try

And none of your advices doesn't work...


UPD: IT WAS ONLY LONG FILE NAMES!!!!!!!!! me lol

The output from ls is slightly odd and it seems to depend on the number of files as to how it's treated. If you do ls -C in a large directory you may see multi-column output then you do ls -C > out.txt and it will be line by line. This is on AIX 5.1.