Command for scrolling back through text on CLI

[yonas Abraham]

On 8/30/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:20 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > If I'm in text mode and run a command like, ls /usr/bin, I get a load of text
> > scrolling by with no way to get back to the start of it. What command do I
> > need to use so that I can scroll back through the text? Or are there any
> > specific key combinations that will do this?
> >
> > I looked at "man ls" and "man tail", but there didn't seem to be any help
> > there.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
> I am not sure why you can't use the scroll feature of the terminal
> window to do this. In seetting up an xterminal you can vary the size of
> the scroll buffer.


how about you pipe the result of ls to more or less comands and hit
enter to continue

like

 ls /usr/bin |less