ls screen by screen
 

Is there and option to ls to list its output screen by screen? When I use ls on some of the larger folders it scrolls off the screen and I can't see it. I've looked through a couple books and the man and info files but haven't found a solution to this. Thanks, Mark

Use a pipe to more

ls | more

Hi,

'Pipe' it through more or less.

$ ls | more
$ ls -latr | less

More/less are made for this task and works with the output of (almost) all programs.

Hope this helps.

we posted this the same time (05:18 PM):D .

with more to see the next line with <enter> and the next page with <space>.
with less you do the same but you may also use the arrows up/down. (you can't go up using more)
quit with q.