GNU bug report logs - #6247
Request a pause

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mark A Powell <map_cap <at> frontiernet.net>

Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Mark A Powell <map_cap <at> frontiernet.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Request a pause
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:16:18 -0400

Hello,  I just read the "man" for the ls command.  I didn't see an
option for pause, as in DOS (dir/p).  There are times when it would be a
great help when, viewing more than one page of files in a directory.
I hope this is not something, I over looked. 
Thank you all for your time.

 -mapcap
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From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: Mark A Powell <map_cap <at> frontiernet.net>
Cc: 6247 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6247: Request a pause
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:12:33 +0200

Hi,

On 05/22/2010 06:16 PM, Mark A Powell wrote:
> Hello,  I just read the "man" for the ls command.  I didn't see an
> option for pause, as in DOS (dir/p).  There are times when it would be a
> great help when, viewing more than one page of files in a directory.
> I hope this is not something, I over looked.

There is no such option, you can pipe the output of ls into your pager 
for this. Of course this enables you to use all the features of said 
pager, e.g. searching or scrolling backwards.

Example:
ls | less

Erik
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Cc: Mark A Powell <map_cap <at> frontiernet.net>, 6247-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6247: Request a pause
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:50:05 +0200

Erik Auerswald wrote:
...
> There is no such option, you can pipe the output of ls into your pager
> for this. Of course this enables you to use all the features of said
> pager, e.g. searching or scrolling backwards.
>
> Example:
> ls | less

Thanks for replying.
I'm marking this as closed.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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