Subject: finger command

From: Jeanette Godreau <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:51:55 -0400 (AST)

I was wondering how when you use the finger command in unix you can get
the screen to stop scrolling in order to read the names.  If anyone could
help me with this it would be great! Thanks!

			Cheers!
			   Jeanette

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From: Robert J Wilshe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:25:12 -0600 (CST)

Hi Jeanette:

The easiest thing to do is to pipe the output to the "more" program.  To
do this you just type "finger | more" at your prompt.  That vertical line
you see is called a pipe (just in case you didn't know) and it usually is
on the same key as your backslash.

This works also for any command that causes output to continuously scroll
off the screen.  Once you're scrolling using more, you can usually hit the
space bar to scroll another length of the screen.  If you need to stop it
entirely, just hit control-c, or whatever the escape sequence is in the
shell you're using. 

Hope this helps!!!

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From: [email-masked] (Bussiga Boran)
Date: 25 Mar 1997 03:34:53 GMT

> help me with this it would be great! Thanks!

try:
finger | more

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:28:41 -0500

> help me with this it would be great! Thanks!

    To be honest, this question is actually irrelevant to this
newsgroup, which is not a tutorial for Un*x.  However, you can 
do either of two things:

        finger _so_and_so_ | more

        finger _so_and_so_ > junk

The first will show you the output screen at a time.  The second will
put the output in a file called "junk" in the current directory.

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