Re: Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:38:45PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Reed Loefgren wrote: > >Is there a way I can keep the > >multi-column output but still use a pager? > > Hmm.. 'apropos column' and aha! The column command can be used to, err, > re-columnize: > > ls /usr/bin |

Re: Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Reed Loefgren wrote: I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I ca

Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
All, I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I can't page it unless I pipe the outp