Sorry, I didn't test what I wrote, just sent the idea of how I would solve your problem. Here is a version that is tested and works... until you have more then 1024 files in the directory. But that's easy to fix with the number of array elements in the set call. But would you walk more then 100 pages of 10 files ?!
#! /bin/ksh
set -A filelist 1024
cnt=0
ls *A* | while read file
do
(( cnt = $cnt + 1 ))
filelist[$cnt]=$file
done
echo $cnt
page=0
(( maxidx = $page * 10 ))
while [ $maxidx -lt $cnt ]
do
(( page = $page + 1 ))
(( maxidx = $maxidx + 10 ))
(( idx = $maxidx - 9 ))
[ $maxidx -gt $cnt ] && maxidx=$cnt
while [ $idx -le $maxidx ]
do
printf "%4d %s\n" $idx ${filelist[$idx]}
(( idx = $idx + 1 ))
done
echo "Hit Enter for Next Page OR Select file no to display"
read answer
case "$answer" in
"")
;;
*) if [ -n "${filelist[$answer]}" ]
then
cat ${filelist[$answer]}
else
echo "File does not exist"
fi
echo "Press return to continue"
read dummy
(( page = $page - 1 ))
(( maxidx = $page * 10 ))
;;
esac
done
Every problem has at least one solution. Only some solutions are harder to find.
