From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 23 6:11:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DD137B423 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds15-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.15] with ESMTP id PAA14367 (8.8.5/1.13); Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:11:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00722; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:05:41 GMT (envelope-from janko@parmenides.utp.net) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:05:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen 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 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 > ls | less Having previously used Linux the first thing after installation is to install the bash shell, the package "less" (which works with the PageUP and PageDOWN keys) and Midnight Commander for browsing files. Midnight Commander is great for exploring your system. Just remember that the package or port name is starts with "mc" but that the binary is called "midc" under FreeBSD. Janko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message