At 07:35 PM 10/5/02 -0400, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>[...]
>1. Is there an option to the ls command that will allow the scroll to page
>like the old dos command dir -p would? O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell does
>not
>so indicate but I have a hard time believing that this is so; that just does
>not seem logicall.
No, there is not an option to "ls". You do this by piping the output of
"ls" to "more".
>2. I have no problem changing to any directory that does not have spaces in
>it but I have no idea of how to account for a space in a directory like in
>the command "cd My Document"?
One trick is to use tab completion. If that doesn't work, you "escape" the
space character. Something like the following (for your example):
cd My\ Document
>Thanks
>Frank
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