As a system administrator, I always worry about certain things, like who's doing what, what processes are running, what the network traffic looks like, etc.  One day I decided to create a simple alias that would combine all the commands I wanted into one big chunk of information.  Then I realized that it wouldn't all fit into one screen.
Fortunately I knew how to group all of the commands together, so the "more" command could handle them as one set of input.

First, here's the wrong way to try to page a sequence of four commands:

     date; netstat -i; whodo; ps -ef | more

The only command that gets paged properly here is the "ps -ef" command –the rest of them scroll off the screen before you can read them.

Here's the correct way to page four commands so they're all controlled by "more":

      (date; netstat -i; whodo; ps -ef) | more

Once you find the commands you want to group together, you can combine them into an alias or shell program.  I recommend a shell program for this, because a few "echo" statements sure make it easier to see where one command ends and the next command begins!

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