{"id":13722,"date":"2016-01-01T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13722"},"modified":"2016-01-01T01:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T01:04:31","slug":"linux-display-ls-results-one-page-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-display-ls-results-one-page-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux:  display ls results one page at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor tells a useful hint he learned from unix.com.<\/h1>\n<p>Sometimes, searching a directory in Linux, the results are so numerous that the user is plunged to the end, not being able to see the early or middle entries.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to avoid this:  apparently, the command<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">ls|more<\/span><\/p>\n<p>displays just the first page of the search results.  To see the rest, the command<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">x d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>advances the list by <span style=\"font-family:monospace\">x<\/span> entries.<\/p>\n<p>On my system, anyway,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">x Space Bar<\/span><\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">x Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>will also advance the list by <span style=\"font-family:monospace\">x<\/span> entries.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">ls|less<\/span><\/p>\n<p>after which you can arrow up or down though the list.<\/p>\n<p>To quit out of the list, press <span style=\"font-family:monospace\">q<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unix.com\/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers\/11163-display-result-one-page-time.html\">unix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor tells a useful hint he learned from unix.com. Sometimes, searching a directory in Linux, the results are so numerous that the user is plunged to the end, not being able to see the early or middle entries. There &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-display-ls-results-one-page-at-a-time\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux:  display ls results one page at a time<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073,1009,637],"tags":[1313,811,1314,1311,1312],"class_list":["post-13722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-skills","category-home-computer-use","category-linux","tag-displaying-ls-one-screen-at-a-time","tag-linux-terminal-commands","tag-lsless","tag-lsmore","tag-unix-terminal-commands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13722"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}