ubuntu terminal

Question

How can I scroll up or pause the terminal so I can read text before it goes too far up?

Answer 1

You can hold down shift and use Page up and Page down to scroll.

You can also pipe the results to less (eg ls -al | less) or send a copy of the output to a text file with tee (eg ls -al | tee filelist.txt).

Answer 2

You can temporarily pause your program by pressing Ctrl-Z. This will put your program to sleep, obviously stopping any output. The you can bring it back to the foreground with fg.

Answer 3

Often Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q can be used to pause/resume terminal output.