I am looking for a simple command to display files in multiple pages at the screen. I tried "ls | more", and it didn't work. Any suggestion?
Thanks.

I want to list the file names at the screen, not the file content.

jnvilo wrote:

what do you mean exactly by "it did not work" ?

ls | more

exactly does what you want. It lists all the files and if there is more than a screenfull, then it waits for you to press a key to show the rest.

ls | less

works better, press the up arrow and you scroll up, down goes down and press the space bar goes to the next contents to fill the whole terminal window

When I sent out "ls | more", only the first page was shown. Press "Enter" or "Space" won't move into the next page.