command to display screen full at a time of a large directory

Curt Stauffer cgstauffer at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 12:45:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> For the life of me I can not remember the command to display large
> directory screen at a time.
>
> In a unix reference book I found  ls -l | pg
> pg not existing.
>
> Please some advice.
>
> Thanks
>
> Johan

How about:

ls -l | less

or

ls -l | more

-Curt
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