on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:46:30PM -0400, Hendrik Boom insinuated: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:30:53PM +0800, Duggan wrote: > > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > >On Friday 2004-07-16 08:59 am, Duggan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to ask. What > > >>is the command that limits output from a command to just a page at a > > >>time, like the /p command in DOS? > > >> > > >> > > > > > >less (or more). As in, instead of running > > > > > > $ command > > > > > >you pipe it's output into less (or more): > > > > > > $ command | less > > > > > >Et voila! You get the output one page at a time. > > > > > > > > Okies, I get it now > > > > Thanks > > > > Elijah > > That works for regular output. However, some programs also emit > error messages onto stderr. The above command will *not* redirect > error messages into less, so they might mess up the pagination. > To get error messages piped through less, use > > command 2>&1 | less
dude! i've been trying to do that for months. tahnks!
as an aside, did /p in DOS redirect stderr, too? it's been so long
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