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Question of the Day - 12 April 2008

If you run a program in a terminal window that generates more output than you can see in one screen, what are some ways to view the output one screenfull at a time?

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  1. edvard

    cat ~/hugetextfile | more
    cat ~/giganticfile | less
    and my favorite:
    cat ~/wayhugefile | most

    I can’t think of any others, but I’d love to know…

    Posted on 14-Apr-08 at 11:02 am | Permalink
  2. @edvard
    I did not know there was a ‘most’ command.

    Another method is to use a terminal program with a scrollbar - like konsole. Those can contain a lot of text.

    Posted on 01-May-08 at 3:04 pm | Permalink

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