How to display the results of a command screen by screen in a shell?
 

Hello there.

I am using Slackware in a shell environment.

For example, when you use the command ls it lists the contents of a directory. But if there are many objects, more than what is possible to fit in a single screen, only the last objects are shown.

So, how can one make a command show its results in a way one can see the results from start to end?

Also, how can you navigate the shell like you would in a desktop environment? I mean, when you-re running KDE for example, you can run a terminal session and scroll with the mouse to see the contents of the previous screens.

Thanks for reading.

you could use less or more.

I would try the following

As schneidz said, you pipe the output through one of the available paginators, the most popular by far being less:The pipe symbol grabs standard output (stdout) from the command on the left and sends it to standard input (stdin) of the command on the right.

Shift + Page Up or Page Down should work.

@schneidz,@MARoque,@Ser Olmy,

Thanks everyone, those commands worked perfectly.