cd command in linux console

[TheUnheardHuman]

i typed cd /dev/ it wen to the dev directory. then i press ls which abviously listed the directory contents. but since the dev directory is so huge a lot of it fell offscreen. is there a command similar to dos's dir /p so that you can onyl see a screen worth of text at a time

[Hammer]

ls | more

This example is piping (the | symbol) the output from the ls command into the more program, which will display you a page full at a time.

[xlnk]

also

cd | less