I am writing a small script which allows users to grep multiple log files across multiple directories, and often the output produced by the grep statements is quite lengthy. It would be nice if the output to the screen could be "paused" when it reaches a certain length (say, the length of the screen), and resumed once the user hits a key. I would rather not output the results to a file, but if the screen output cannot be tamed I may have no choice.

use

grep "var" filename | less

use

| more

after your 'grep' commands

Use

grep command | less

as ' less ' has more capabilities than ' more ' .

But less is available on fewer systems than more.

Cheers
ZB

I would strongly discourage any such thing.

If the user wants to have the output paginated he can pipe itself through "pg", "more", "less" or whatever is his favourite paginating program. If the user wants to use the output in any other way (like: capture it in a file, feed it to another program in a pipe, ...) the usage of a paginating software inside the script would prevent all these possibilities.

bakunin