On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:11, yonas Abraham wrote: > On 8/30/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:20 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > If I'm in text mode and run a command like, ls /usr/bin, I get a load > > > of text scrolling by with no way to get back to the start of it. What > > > command do I need to use so that I can scroll back through the text? Or > > > are there any specific key combinations that will do this? > > > > > > I looked at "man ls" and "man tail", but there didn't seem to be any > > > help there. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > I am not sure why you can't use the scroll feature of the terminal > > window to do this. In seetting up an xterminal you can vary the size of > > the scroll buffer. > > how about you pipe the result of ls to more or less comands and hit > enter to continue > > like > > ls /usr/bin |less Thanks. Yes I'm piping the commands through less now, and that has solved the problem. Nigel.
