How do I page only if neccessary ? 1

[Tison]

I want the following script to "pg" or "more" only if the result is greater than 1 page ;
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for file in `ls s*`
do
echo $file
done
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Adding the pg or more at end of the echo line does not work.

 

[mrn]

a=`ls s* | wc -l`

if [ $a > "36" ] # 36 = screen line length
then
for file in `ls s*`
do
pg $file
done
else
for file in `ls s*`
do
cat $file
done
fi --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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[AIXSPadmin]

Another possibility is to use `more -e` which exits the file automatically after the last line.