How to Scroll the Command Window

How many times have you been annoyed by the command output spanning over the length of the window? If the window is in the X-Window environment, then you could use the scroll bars to scroll back. What if this is your console window, and it does not have scroll bars?

Sure, if only you had remembered, you could have piped the command to the less command. For example,

ps -ef |less

It turns out that you can scroll the bash command window.

To scroll up, hit Shift-Up.

To scroll down, hit Shift-Down.

Simple? Yes. And Effective !!