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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2002 10:46 am    Post subject: How do I make things print page by page? Reply with quote

In DOS there is a /p option to allow me to print things on the screen page by page. However I have not yet found a similar option in Linux (if there is any).

It is useful because I can then now what packages are going to be merged if there is a huge list of them (like KDE).
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2002 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
some_command | more



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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2002 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or you can use:
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some_command | less
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2002 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks guys. Worked perfectly.
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