> > > When I do an "ls -l" in a directory such as /etc, it > lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see > about 150 of them because of my limited "buffer size" > or whatever that might be called !
This has little to do with bash. It is a setting of the terminal you use. For an xterm, you can specify the number of saved lines with the -sl option (xterm -sl 1000 gives you 1000 lines), or put a line XTerm*saveLines: 1000 in your ~/.Xresources file, and make sure it is read by your .xsession file (with something like `xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources'). However, the way to deal with this comfortably, is to use a pager like `less': $ ls -l /etc | less This sends the output of ls -l to the pager less, and you can easily scroll up and down, and search with `/' (forward) and `?' (backward). HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
