need help please

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by meomike2000, Oct 2, 2008.

  1. meomike2000

    meomike2000 New Member

    i have a question that i hope somebody can help me with.
    when at the command line u can type "ls" to get a list of files and directories.
    the question i have is how do u make it stop if the list is to long to fit the page.

    at a windows command line you would type "dir" and use the p option.

    does anybody know if this is possible and if so how?

    tia........
     
  2. edge

    edge Active Member Moderator

    What I normally do is tye ls > somename.txt
    This will dump everything in the file somename.txt
    Now you can open somename.txt, and look through it line by line.
     
  3. Leszek

    Leszek Member

    This will work as well:
    Code:
    ls | more
     
  4. Jamesr

    Jamesr New Member

    Hi,

    Also
    Code:
    ls | less
    space bar to page down
    Q
    to quit
     
  5. meomike2000

    meomike2000 New Member

    thank you

    all three work very well.
    thank you thank you thank you......
     
  6. Jamesr

    Jamesr New Member

    Hi,

    Glad to be of help.
     

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