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

I added a function definition and alias to my default profile at %SystemRoot%\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\profile.ps1

This function is mostly based on this blog entry by Aman Dhally with added exception handling for pressing Q while paging.

function more2
{
   param(
     [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
     [System.Management.Automation.PSObject]$InputObject
   )

   begin
   {
      $type = [System.Management.Automation.CommandTypes]::Cmdlet
      $wrappedCmd = $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.GetCommand(‘Out-Host’, $type)
      $scriptCmd = {& $wrappedCmd @PSBoundParameters -Paging }
      $steppablePipeline = $scriptCmd.GetSteppablePipeline($myInvocation.CommandOrigin)
      $steppablePipeline.Begin($PSCmdlet)
   }

   process
   {
      try
      {
         $steppablePipeline.Process($_)
      }
      catch
      {
        break;
      }
   }

   end
   {
      $steppablePipeline.End()
   }

   #.ForwardHelpTargetName Out-Host
   #.ForwardHelpCategory Cmdlet
}

New-Alias more more2

so I can just call it like dir -r | more and it immediately starts paged output because of PowerShell's pipeline (as opposed to waiting for the complete output with more.com).