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

Hiisi saippua5 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 22:20:57 UTC 2011


pe, 2011-01-21 kello 00:30 +0200, Johan Scheepers kirjoitti:
> 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

The pg [1] command is deprecated now. It's old.
Has anybody yet suggested using less or more in the same pipe?
REFERENCES
1. http://www.computerhope.com/unix/upg.htm
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