Recently converted... Basic Shell command line question

[cheapbastard]

I cannot, for the life of me, find the equivalent of the DOS command "dir /p" !!!

I'm trying to view the contents of directories and I can't find any kind of pause command anywhere in these stupid books I've got. Am I missing something here? :confused: :confused:

[twofoolish2b]

I always use ls |more.

[mongrel]

ls | more
ls is the unix equivalant of dir, the pipe sends the output to the more utility which is much more powerfult than the pause switch in dos. More actually lets you scroll up or down through the list. You can find more info on more by entering: man more
at the prompt.

[cheapbastard]

Gracias
:p

[aph3x]

personally, i like less more than more, because more often than less, i need less to scroll back and forth through more text... :p

[cheapbastard]

oooooooo, I like that one! Thanks aph3x

:D

[ep0k]

Originally posted by aph3x:
personally, i like less more than more, because more often than less, i need less to scroll back and forth through more text... :p

momma?

[berb]

Originally posted by aph3x:
personally, i like less more than more, because more often than less, i need less to scroll back and forth through more text... :p

concur

[teeitup]

FYI

When using the more command the "B" will scroll backwards.

Using the space for forward and B for back works well.

[thor4linux]

In Drake and SuSE l and ll are aliases that i beleive are defaults.

in Drake l =ls
and ll=ls -al|more with cool color codeing.

SuSE
l = ls -al 
ll= ls
Both with color coding.

Although you can specify any alias in you .profile file, but i haven't figured out how to gat the color option to work.

Also the l and ll options might be bash specific, i'm not sure.