On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 15:34:51 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > $ ls|more -e > more: unknown option -e > Try 'more --help' for more information. > > I included the reason in my post by listing the Linux environments I use > and where I expect this to work. Interestingly the man page for more in > Debian 11 doesn't list -e but it seems to work anyway. But not on the > others I mentioned.
I don't have access to a plethora of Linux distributions, so I wasn't aware of how the -e option was treated by all of them. Does the "export MORE=-e" variant work on the ones where -e is not accepted as a command-line option? I would (perhaps naively) expect that any unknown options in the MORE environment variable would be silently ignored. But if that does throw an error, then... um... sorry, I tried?
