Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:26:07 -0600 From: Reed Loefgren <reedl@tatteredcover.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Paging multiple columns in the console Message-ID: <40C8EE0F.D385F4B4@tatteredcover.com>
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All, I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I can't page it unless I pipe the output to more or less, and then I get a single column. Is there a way I can keep the multi-column output but still use a pager? This isn't a problem if I'm in X, just console. I know I can hit the (I think) scroll lock and do this, but I'm looking for something that flows a bit better for me. Thanks, r
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