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.
David and Greg covered the practical side of this already. For additional (and _possibly_ interesting) context, this isn't a Debian-specific change. It's part of the upstream util-linux-2.38 release¹. It was submitted to the util-linux mailing list in 2021² and referenced the POSIX specification as the rationale³. ¹ https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/master/Documentation/releases/v2.38-ReleaseNotes#L784 https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/df6b29d3b (more: POSIX compliance patch preventing exit on EOF without -e, 2021-09-29) ² https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/20210624125918.gb2...@contractcoder.biz/ ³ https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/more.html -- Todd
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