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

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Thu Jan 20 12:46:12 UTC 2011


On 01/20/2011 05:30 PM, Johan Scheepers 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

Johan,

Please try ls | less or ls | more.

Phil


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