Question

in bash, how do I scroll up?

Answer 1

lets say I do this:

/
$ ls
bigHonkinDirectory
$ cd bighonkindirectory
/bighonkindirectory
$ ls
screenfuls of files

how can I view all the files?

Answer 2

view the filenames*

Answer 3

To scroll up, hit Shift-Up.
To scroll down, hit Shift-Down.

Answer 4

or just use ls | more
it will show you page by page

Answer 5

Alternatively, pipe the command to the less command. Yeah @ acomdar

Answer 6

so the only bash commands I know are man, ls, cat, more, less, rm, cd

Answer 7

also pwd

Answer 8

I'm new to this but would cp to another open/readable folder not work? Or is this like the pipe and/or less command.

Answer 9

Yes that is like piping and it will work.

Answer 10

ls | more

ls's output is piped ( | ) to more's input.

You can chain things arbitrarily long doing this. Each week I have to check an inventory of tapes by:

cat fileName | egrep 'D00' | sort | more

which gives me all the tapes whose name begins with D00 in sorted order and I can control the scrolling.

Answer 11

always use less instead of more, because with less you can scroll up/down while with more you can go only one direction

Answer 12

more will go up or down try CTRL+U, CTRL+B, CTRL+D, CTRL+F, the return key and the spacebar.

Answer 13

hmm yes, but with less i can just use arrows or mouse scroll :P

Answer 14

Yep.

Answer 15

Depending on the OS, or probably the window manager, this functionality is available.