NOTE: you can combine these flags. IE: I regularly use: ls -la | more OR ls -la | less
sig -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Walters Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:52 PM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] Thanks everyone Hello All those who helped me by suggesting piping through less. Thank you very much. I have tried all of your suggestions and they all work. I will tell you how I liked each one of the options for each purpose I want. ls -m | less works but it is too messy for me. ls -a | less works beautifully for scrolling through all the files and directories both hidden and visible. When I want to look at all the hidden files in a directory I will use that option. ls -l | less works beautifully for scrolling through all the files that I want to check the permissions on. There will be times I will use this option. ls | less works well for page up and page down in the current user directory. This works well for locating a file I just made and checking that I spelled it the way I want to spell it. If I find a file is there but I made a typographical error in its spelling, I can use the move command. e.g. I create a file called clasical_gas and want to make it classical_gas.txt mv cla (tab completion) and get mv clasical_gas Then I type classical_gas.txt . That is the full command is mv clasical_gas classical_gas.txt. Then I would do an "ls | less and use page down and page up to scroll to classical_gas.txt to see that it is there and also to make sure that clasical_gas is not there. Thanks again, Szemir, Shawn, Aaron, and Mel. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
