long ftp dir listings
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 29 09:34:58 PDT 2005
In the last episode (Sep 29), David said:
> Dear list,
>
> I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box
> while ftp'ing somewhere. <pause> is hardly useful, since the listing goes
> by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this
> is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll
> up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated.
If you're on a vty, hit scroll-lock and pageup.
/usr/bin/ftp also has a "pdir" command that pipes the output to $PAGER
locally.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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