Scrolling

How to scroll up and down in the Shell is one of the most commonly asked questions.

To scroll up:

# hold down the SHIFT key and press the Page Up key
SHIFT + <PGUP>

To scroll down:

# hold down the SHIFT key and press the Page Down key
SHIFT + <PGDN>

It is worth noting that this scrolls the main shell window. If you want to scroll within certain programs (e.g. scroll the different windows in a 'talk' connection or page scrolling in 'vim') you should check out the man pages for that program.

By convention, it is usually some form of holding down CTRL and pressing some key (e.g. 'v'), or using the <PGUP> and <PGDN> keys.

Finally lets look at some useful keystrokes.

In this section

• What the shell is
• Tab Completion
• Scrolling
• Useful Keystrokes