Equivalent of 'more' or 'less' command in Powershell?

Question

Is there a way to paginate the output by piping it to some \'more\' command, which is available in linux\\unix shells?

Answer 1

The Powershell Community Extensions have a handy function named 'less' that provides a more complete Unix-style feature set, using a ported copy of less.exe to actually handle the paging.

You can install it by starting an admin shell and running:

Find-Package pscx | Install-Package -Force

(the force is to upgrade older versions)

You can pipe strings to it, or give filenames as direct parameters.

type foo.txt | less
less foo.txt, bar.txt, baz.txt

It works in ConEmu and Powershell windows, but unfortunately it doesn't work the way you'd expect under the v2.0 ISE.