view page command?

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Hi All,

When I run a command on any shell, many times the output is longer than the screen can hold, so I only can see parts of the output. Is there a command that will show me page by page the results of each command?

Thanks, Jared

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"more" or "less"

e.g. cat abc.txt | less

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personally, id suggest less as it is more practical. with less you can go down , AND up to re-read what you may have missed.
in addition to piping out put to less, which is something you will be doing ALOT, you can simply read text files with less;
$ less sometextfile

you can pipe the output of any command to less or more. the programs less, and more are called pagers, so if the configure script of somet program happen to ask you what your favorite pager to use is, that is what it means.

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thanks to both