> Why would you want to cat the file _and_ page it? That is a useless use of > cat here, as less accepts STDIN.
It was an example ... the OP wanted a way to page output from a command, the command I chose for the example was "cat" - it could easily have been anything else - #> ls -lsart | less Better? :-) Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]