Display lines of a file screen by screen

[jc223]

Hi I am having problems with displaying text from a file screen by screen, so that each screen only shows one line from the file, and the user must press a button to go to the next screen.
This is my script:

cat test.txt | while read LINE
do

echo $LINE|more

done

Please tell me what is wrong with this, if you can. I think it has something to do with the more command, but am very new to Unix......

 

[tdatgod]

Hi,
More works by displaying $LINES-2 worth of text and then pausing. if $LINES isn't set then it uses ROWS from the STTY settings.

eswssol002:~ [111] stty -a
speed 9600 baud;
rows = 34; columns = 80; ypixels = 378; xpixels = 499;



If The length of the test is < $LINES more acts like CAT and doesn't pause.

You might try

setting LINES 3

LINES = 3 ; export LINES //ksh
setenv LINES 3 //csh

and then simply

more file