From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 23 6:54: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C91337B440 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA66213; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:56:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000823085259.00abd750@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:55:21 -0400 To: "MrBoboo" , "newbie @ freebsd" From: John Subject: Re: help with listing In-Reply-To: <000e01c00cbc$42cd2720$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 Two choices... You can "ls | more" or, you can install "less" from the ports tree (/usr/ports/misc/less) and then "ls | less" Both accomplish your goal. You'll probably want to read "man more" or "man less" either way. Hope that helps, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message