On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:41:41AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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?
Hm Debian stable (bookworm) here. More accepts -e, more --help mentions it, man page too. More itself says: tomas@caliban:~$ more --version more from util-linux 2.38.1 Exporting MORE set to some unknown option (I did MORE=-q) leads to more complaining and refusing service (so it seems to behave as if one passed that option directly in the command line). Cheers -- t
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