Re: command to display screen full at a time of a large directory

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On 01/20/2011 10:30 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> For the life of me I can not remember the command to display large 
> directory screen at a time.
> 
> In a unix reference book I found  ls -l | pg
> pg not existing.
> 
> Please some advice.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Johan

If you're looking for multi-column output in a pager (so that you get several
file names per line when not using -l) take a look at the --format and -x, -m,
-1, and -C options.

E.g. ls -x | less

Regards,
Bryn.

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