On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 10:19, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday September 12 2003 06:40 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > ls -l in the /usr/bin directory scrolls off the end of the page, > > and even scrolling back up doesn't go as far as files beginning > > with "c", so I don't know. I looked in 'man ls' but I didn't see > > any way to make it just show one screenful of info at a time. > > You shouldn't need 'ls -l'. Check to see, type 'alias ll' in a > console, EG, > tom $ alias ll > alias ll='ls -l' > It's long been a standard alias that Mandrake uses. To see all > of 'em (including any you've created) just type 'alias'. > > For displaying large outputs, use 'll |less' and then you can > Arrow, Page down, or scroll with your mouse down thru the output, > either a page or line at a time. EG, > > 'll |less /usr/bin' very cool,, thanks Tom, I never knew that...
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