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Old 05-20-2008, 01:47 PM   #1
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Terminal Window


When I'm using the terminal window and I type a command the list information or instructions that exceeds the width of the screen how do I toggle up or down to see the information that is not on the screen?
 
Old 05-20-2008, 02:12 PM   #2
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Depends on your terminal and/or DE/WM ... the "safest" way would be to
use less and pipe the info into that.

E.g.:

ls -l | less


Then you should be able to use the cursor and page keys to
navigate up and down failing that f & b to page forward and
backward.


Cheers,
Tink
 
Old 05-20-2008, 03:12 PM   #3
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If you use something like Konsole, you have a scroll bar.

The other tool to learn is grep. Suppose you want to list a directory, but only display files with "lib" in the name:

ls | grep lib
 
Old 05-20-2008, 08:00 PM   #4
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try shift+page up/down
 
  


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