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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes: |
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>>> (c) use less -F and less will automatically exit if the entire file can fit |
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>>> on one screen. One can export LESS='-F' to have less always do the above. |
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>> Maybe I'm seeing behavior that is not supposed to happen, but if I say |
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>> echo '## ONE LINE' > test |
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>> And then say less -F test |
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>> I do not get to see the one line. I don't think that's what Alan |
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>> was looking for is it? |
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> It is caused by "alternate screen" handling in your terminal emulator. |
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> You can disable alternate screen in your terminal (if possible), or |
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> remove the smcup and rmcup directives from your termcap file. |
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> As a test, you can try this: |
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> export TERM=vt220 |
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> less -F test |
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> it should display the one line file. |
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> Or you can use the -X option of less like Willie said which inhibits |
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> less from using the alternate screen. |
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OK, thanks for the input... good information. I'm not really likely |
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to use that command much or ever... but good to know. |
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I guess you see the same behavior I reported? That is, that a one |
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line file is not displayed with `less -F file' ? |
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