I'm a real newbie here. This is my first post to any site for anything, (I hope this works).
My problem is with the yum list being too big for the terminal.
When I type in "yum list available" about 200 or so lines of text flash before me in a matter of a few seconds. The scroll bar only allows me to scroll back so far (somewhere in the "Rs") so anything yum showed me that came before the "Rs" I get to see for a whopping millisecond or so.
Is there some way I can slow\pause the list or have it display one page at a time? I've looked in the man pages and have either missed it or am out of luck because I didn't see anything that could help. I'm sure there's a simple command that would help but I know very few commands\arguments.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

should do the trick ... less is a so called "paginator",
it will aloow you to scroll back and forth through the
output. a single letter q will quit it.


Cheers,
Tink

Thank you, it worked like charm. I suspect I will be able to use this with other list that are too big.

Most welcome, and yep - you just discovered the
beauty of pipes in Unix/Linux :} ... they allow you to
chain varied processes together quite effectively.

Btw, less can do many other things, too, like searching
forth and back, allowing to switch into edit mode, ...

Have a read of
man less


Cheers,
Tink

If for some reason you wish to save a list of what yum displays in a text file, you can type:
Doing this will save the output as a text file that you can transfer or read later.

How about "yum list available | grep myfilename"

to find a more specific file?