Partial directory list in linux

Question

If I have a directory containing hundreds of files, using ls, ls-l, or dir gives me a list that's too long for the command terminal screen, so I'm unable to see most of the files in the directory.

I recall there being some argument for ls that allows one to scroll through the list in short increments, but can't seem to find it.

Answer 1

One more way is to redirect the output of ls into a temporary file and then view that file with any editor of your choice - that way you can do searches etc. as well:

ls > res.tmp
vim res.tmp
emacs res.tmp
gedit res.tmp
grep "pattern" res.tmp

Answer 2

One option is to pipe the output to less or more

ls | less

or

ls | more

Answer 3

Try doing this in a shell :

ls -1 | less