Luis Villa (liv@duke.edu)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
Or you can use ps | less, which gives you more functionality tha more (like
the ability to scroll up and down.)
Generally speaking, you can use a pipe ( | ) to redirect the output of any
command to any other (instead of to the screen.) This is why most Unix
programs don't have /p like commands- you are expected to use another
program (like more or less) to deal with the output.
-Luis
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, perry wrote:
> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:35:05 -0400
> From: perry <perryp@shore.net>
> To: Evan Read <eread@netaccess.co.nz>
> Cc: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: /dev/mixer
>
> >p.s. when using "ls", how does one get it to pause at the end of a screen
> >and wait for a keypress? (much like DOS's dir /p). I have checked out the
> >man pages but the functionality doesn't seem to exist.
>
> you can pipe the output of 'ls' to a text reader like more. I often use:
>
> ls | more
>
> ...if the output fills more than a screen, hitting space will let you
> advance to the next screen.
>
> this is really useful - you can pipe the output of pretty much everything
> that used stdout to everything that uses stdin.
>
> -perry
>
>
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