Re: Bash buffer size

[MallarJ@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/26/99 10:14:31 AM Central Standard Time,
afo@or219a.e1.iit.edu writes:

> When I do an "ls -l" in a directory such as /etc, it
>  lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see
>  about 150 of them because of my limited "buffer size"
>  or whatever that might be called !
>  
>  Question : What is the variable that controls this, and how 
>  can I change that?

This doesn't answer your question, but another option would be to pipe output
to the less or more command:

ls -l | more
ls -l | less