From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 22 22: 3:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C7537B43F for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA17157; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA14959; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:03:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gollucci@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA14955; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:03:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: gollucci owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:03:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" To: MrBoboo Cc: "newbie @ freebsd" Subject: Re: help with listing In-Reply-To: <000e01c00cbc$42cd2720$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org there is no specifc option. man ls you want to basically do ls [options] [args] | more or ls [options] [args] | less ***************************************************************************** Philip M. Gollucci (p6m7g8) Web-site : http://www.p6m7g8.com E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu Philip@p6m7g8.com Phone : 301.249.6261 (Home) 301. . (College) Major : Computer Science Electrical Engineering Minor : Classical & Jazz Performance Current Job : Co Science, Discovery, & the Universe Webmaster URL: http://www.sdu.umd.edu Resume : http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gollucci/resume.html ***************************************************************************** On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, MrBoboo wrote: > what is the command for listing files/directories page by page (i cant see the other 50 files that scroll through the top and only see about 40 files/folders) > like the DOS command would be DIR /P > i cant find it in the man pages, nor the sites, nor the 3 admin books i have for BSD/unix/linux > i have done it before but have since forgotten syntax/option for it > anyone help > thanx > Rob Wideman > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message