Thanks - All I have been a GUI person for a long time and am just now starting to explore command line recovery tactics due to the crash of an old clunker MS box. No supprise on the crash it being MS and I can fix that in short order but there are several files and directories that I have a preference to salvage if possible. Any way thanks for the additional information on my first steps in this new venture.
Thanks Frank On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:18, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: You got answers to both but I didn't notice anyone > mentioning piping to "less." "More" is the same as Dos's more but > only allows you to scroll in one direction.. Less supports scrolling > backwards in addition - helpful at times.. Less, also, is a very nice > text reader invoking it then the filename.. Not sure, though, if Toms > boot disk has less on board though. Most other distribs do.. > > Once you dig deeper into Linux/Unix you can write your own scripts to > do almost anything that you wish.. As an example I wrote 'listit' > which is mere shorthand for "ls -l | less"... I'm sure you know the > various flags used with list.. ^^ means list the directory with all > the details of each file.. Linux In A Nutshell explains all the > flags pretty well.. > > Toms Root Disk is usually used for rescue activities.. If you really > like the command line you should install a version of Slackware with > a lot more power and very Unix like.. You'll be amazed as I, finding > where Dos and everything else came from... <grin> HTH > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 10-05, 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
