Auto page down / scrolling after a few seconds using more, less, or something similar

Question

When using more or less, the output is paused at the end of each page. Is there some way to have it pause only for a few seconds (configurable or not), and then continue to the next page? Is there some other tool that can do it?

Answer 1

I remember playing with something like that in the MS-DOS age. Cute, but very unpractical.

But just as an exercise in strange things:

#!/bin/bash
while read 
do
    echo "$REPLY"
    sleep 1s
done

Save it as 'scroll' and use scroll < textfile

If you want to do a page-by-page scroll, you can use tput to determine how many rows there is in a terminal.

#!/bin/bash
while read 
do
    lines=`tput lines`
    while [ $lines -gt 0 ]
    do
        echo "$REPLY"
        read
        lines=$(( $lines - 1 ))
    done
    sleep 1s
done