You can also "pipe" any commands to the program 'less', like this
# [command]  |less  (that's pipe symbol, less)
for big directories I like `ls -l |less`, use up and down arrows to scroll,
'q' to quit


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas E. Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 06:05
Subject: RPM questions


> Hello,
>
> If I do rpm -qlp [filename], is there a way to keep the output from
> scrolling off the screen?  Also, how do you keep ls from doing the same?
>
> Another thing, when I have tried to remove a package using rpm -e, I get
> package not installed when I know its installed.  Do I have a problem
> with the rpm database?  I tried rpm --rebuilddb, but it doesn't help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
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