Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

[Duggan]

John Summerfield wrote:
Rus Foster wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, 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?

Thankyou
Elijah
  

Try
cmd | less
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cmd | less
-bash: cmd: command not found

Yeah, thats what I did first and said it didn't work.  From all the 
imput I think the following is a clear way to express it:

/command/ 2>&1 | less
where:
- the "command" is the specific function or action to be performed
- "2>" is the instruction to direct (the errors?) to stderr
- "&1" is the instruction to duplicate these error messages to stdout
- "| less" is the instruction to output the result of the command to less.
Is this right?  Just out of curiosity what exactly is stderr and stdout?
You guys are great!
Elijah
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