In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I put these lines > >echo "\n" >fortune -a >echo "" > >in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the >newlines instead of the contents of a file: > >sos:~> less ei > > >The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that >two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated >by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics. > -- I.F. Stone > >lesspipe.sh: Command not found.
You made a typo. Somehow the "fortune" command, and the echos, got into the definitions of the LESSPIPE command. There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious to spot Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?