On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 16:01:41 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> For decades, I've had an alias like this:
>
> alias l="ls -lF|more"
>
> Convenient, no pager unless the directory listing is long. And now it's
> become this code:
>
> more_version=$(more --version|awk '{print $4}'|cut -d. -f1-2)
> if [[ $more_version -ge 2.38 ]]
> then
> alias l='ls -lF|more --exit-on-eof'
> else
> alias l='ls -lF|more'
> fi
Why did you make it so complicated? What's wrong with simply:
alias l='ls -lF|more -e'
or perhaps:
export MORE=-e
alias l='ls -lF|more'
And by the way, this line:
if [[ $more_version -ge 2.38 ]]
is not correct. Bash can't do a floating point numeric comparison. This
syntax simply gives an error message:
hobbit:~$ [[ 2.1 -ge 2.2 ]]
bash: [[: 2.1: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".1")
Are you using some other shell, maybe? Like zsh?
