[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 8 May, André Bell wrote: > > Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z? > > > > When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the > > top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd > > just type 'dir /p' or type '<filename> |more' > > > > Are there equivalent set of commands for bash? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Andre' > > > > Hello Andre! > > There is no such function built in into bash, but there is the command > 'less'. Just type 'less <filename>'. >
Or, if "less" is not installed, use "more"; but "less" is a nicer "more". Also, you can pipe the output of commands through more, just like in DOS; for example, the equivalent of "dir /p" would be "ls |more".
