Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals by bowmessage on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:03PM (#31416834)

Maybe pipe output of every command into a script that invokes $PAGER when the output is long enough?

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Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals by rustyminnow on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:58PM (#31417239)

less has a flag for that: (the gnu version does at least)

       -F or --quit-if-one-screen
       Causes  less  to automatically exit if the entire file can be displayed on the
       first screen.

So one could just pipe everything through `less -F`. If a different $PAGER is preferred, well that'll be a little more involved.

(Also handy: add in `-X` to leave the contents on the screen when you exit less)

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Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals by bowmessage on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:33PM (#31417884)

Neat! Thanks for the tips.

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