On Saturday 05 February 2005 05:06, Michael Walters wrote: > Could someone please tell me where to go in the Linux Command Summary to > find out how to do this?
ls | less the '|', or pipe, character sends the output of whatever is the left of it as the input to whatever is on the right side of it. "less" is a command that provides paging. so `ls | less` gives you a listing with paging. this is superior to implementing paging in ls itself since less allows paging with ANY command in a consistent manner and it keeps the code for ls simpler (and therefore less buggy). there are alternatives to less, such a more, for instance. the UNIX command line is highly componentized in this manner, and its up to the user to hook the components together with |, <, >, etc... -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
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