Quoting Stephan Engelke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:15:53AM +0000, Walter Logeman wrote: > > > While we are on the subject, what I can't do is stop the file > > from scrolling past, is there a way to view them page by page? > > cat filename | more > zcat filename.gz | more > gzip -dc filename.gz | more (generic way, zcat usually is a link to gzip) > more filename > > If the pager "less" is installed, replace more with less if you like. > Less also comes with a "decompression"-mode. > > zless filename.gz > > zless, gzip and zcat also operate on files created by compress(1) (i.e. > ".Z"-files).
You can use less filenames*.gz if you eval $(lesspipe) which has the advantage of your being able to navigate multiple files in the normal (less) manner, which zless doesn't support. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
