Telling ls to display one screen at a time

rl5 · 03-23-2004, 07:04 PM

Is that a flag for ls (or dir) that allows only one screen of data to be displayed at a time? (If there is, I couldn't find it in the man pages).

aaa · 03-23-2004, 07:14 PM

I think there is, but i can't remember it. But you can do it with another program:

ls|more

OR

ls|less

Kristijan · 03-23-2004, 07:24 PM

Yep, just pipe ls through more or less.

Less is more

Code:

ls | less

Tinkster · 03-23-2004, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kristijan
Less is more ;)

Nope ;}

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 93008 2002-06-14 16:11 /usr/bin/less
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 26784 2002-06-13 10:54 /bin/more

Cheers,
Tink