You know how when you use the man command to read the manual (e.g. man ls
) and you get output that is paginated that you can read from top to bottom by pressing 'f' to go read further down and 'b' to read further up (assuming you're reading from top to bottom left to right) and you press 'q' to quit. I want the output from diff to behave the same way because sometimes I have a long list of differences to read but I find myself having to scroll all the way up in the terminal to read the beginning of the output.
The Git diff command does this and I've come to like it (e.g. git diff
) but I don't always have the luxury of having all my files under version control.
The best I can think off is piping the out put of the diff command to some other command but I'm not sure which. Can anyone help? Does this sort of output behavior provided (like man pages) have a name for future reference?