ls command runs off page 4

[testman1]

Can someone tell me how to use the ls command so that it doesn't run off the page; something like the the DOS dir /w.
Thanks.

 

[Annihilannic]

Like in DOS, you can pipe the output through a pager, e.g. ls | more or ls | less.

Annihilannic.

 

[zeland]

Thought the /w in DOS means "wide". Even then you needed to use MORE with dir to paginate the output. ls already displays entries in a wide (columnar) format unless you use the -1 (the number one) or -l (the alpha L).

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[m4ilm4n]

I usually set up an alias for users called "dir" that equals "ls -al | more".

 

[testman1]

That was helpful.
I modified it to: ls -al --color=always | more
I found a way to have the pipe put the color back in.

It's always an adventure.

thanks again.

 

[Kirsle]

zeland gets a star from me cuz I didn't know about the -1 option to ls (it doesn't seem to be mentioned on the man page).

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