Re: [LINUX_Newbies] How to break a list

You could pipe it. Try 'ls | more' or 'ls | less' for more visual
convenience. With less you can scroll through the listing using your
keyboard arrow buttons. HTH

On 03/22/2017 08:10 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
>
> I installed the server Ubuntu 15.04. When I enter a line command like
> "ls" to list the contents of a directory, if the list is longer than can
> fit in the monitor screen, it will scroll down and what I see is the
> tailing end of the list that fits in the monitor screen. How can I get
> the "ls" list to stop at the first block that fits in the screen, then
> let it go to the second block and so on, so I can see everything that is
> being listed?
> Stan
>
>
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> Posted by: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@commspeed.net>
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