On 23 Apr 2006, Miles Bader spake thusly:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I read it. I still think that my answer suffices: Put your
>> pipeline in a script, and set that to PAGER.
>
> Your answer doesn't "suffice," because it's not what people expect
> -- PAGER has historically (for a _long_ time) supported arguments
> being specified
Nothing in what I said preclues specifying arguments.
__> echo $PAGER
less -ciM
None of this applies to pipelines, which must either have a
file name, or - for stdin. Arguments are a different beastie for
general pipelines.
> (and I guess in practice it was usually used an argument to popen),
> so that's what users have come to expect, and what other
> distros/OSes support in the vast majority of cases.
Irrelevant to the current discussion.
> Changing it now would be very unfriendly to users, and morever there
> seems to be little or no benefit to doing so (really, what exactly
> would you gain?).
Please go back, and re-read what I have said:
_> cat somefile.txt | less -ciM
_> less -ciM somefile.txt
Both work, but:
_> cat somefile.txt | fileterA | filterB -
may work,
_> fileterA | filterB - somefile.txt
does not.
manoj
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