The -E options is also affected by this bug.
This is not desired behavior. less should exit after displaying the
content (i.e. not wait for the user to type 'q').
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-F option broken
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http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/bugs.html says The -F option only exits
if the entire file can be displayed on one screen.
So it seems that it's desired behaviour.
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #51462
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=51462
** Also affects: less (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=51462
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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** Changed in: less (Debian)
Status: Unknown = Confirmed
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Confirming with less 418. According to the linked mailing list above, it
does not affect Ubuntu only.
** Changed in: less (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status: New = Triaged
** Description changed:
cat /tmp/a | less -F
-
+ or
+ echo 1 | less -F
doesn't show any
The work around is to use -X option. I guess -F should imply -X
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This actually breaks git
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0610/29912.html
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Looking further i found that it always redraw the screen up on quit
from less. I am not sure whether redraw is the exact word to describe it
though. BTW any idea how to disable it ?
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