Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ysub!msu.bitnet!18215mes From: 18215MES@MSU.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: NCSA Telnet - ftp - and ls -lt | head Message-ID: <48418215MES@MSU> Date: 24 Jul 90 13:39:38 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 9 Hi folks, I find it valuable to connect to stanford - sumex via ncsa telnet, and would like to see the most recent postings in a few of the directories. I know that I can do a ls -lt to list sorted by most recent additions, but how can I limit it to the first 10 - 15 lines of output? On unix, I can pipe the output to head which only prints the first 10-20 lines of output... Any Ideas? Thanks , mark sartor