On Mon 14 Oct 2024 at 14:38:36 (-0400), Jim Anderson wrote: > > I'm not sure why the Debian developers chose to change the behavior of > the 'more' command, but the Debian release 12 has the annoying habit, > upon reaching end of the file, of displaying extra empty lines to fill > a terminal window, then inserting the text: > > (END) > > at the end of file. This requires entering an unnecessary and annoying > carriage return to restore the window to the terminal screen prompt. > > One time usage is not bad, but if you use 'more' often, as I do, this > behavior is a repeating waste of time. I hope the developers will > revert to the traditional behavior.
I think you now need -e in a terminal: -e, --exit-on-eof Exit on End-Of-File, enabled by default if not executed on terminal. Perhaps alias it? Cheers, David.