Willie WY Wong <wong...@member.ams.org> writes: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:24:29PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: >> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:42:00PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > >> >> (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using cat etc., >> >> and have the interesting part scroll away. >> > >> > (c) use less -F and less will automatically exit if the entire file can fit >> > on one screen. One can export LESS='-F' to have less always do the above. >> >> Maybe I'm seeing behavior that is not supposed to happen, but if I say >> echo '## ONE LINE' > test >> >> And then say less -F test >> >> I do not get to see the one line. I don't think that's what Alan >> was looking for is it? > > That is not supposed to happen. Is that in a X terminal or on the text > console?
Real xterm in kde desktop (not konsole or any of the wannabes, just plain xterm) xterm -version XTerm(276) > If you `less test` and quit, does the content of the test file stay on > screen or does it get cleared (I bet the former)? Try `less -XF test` > in that case, and see if it helps. (I guess you meant `latter'... not `former' eh?) Here it is cleared... and yup `less -XF test' does as expected. less doesn't start but the one line is shown. (For the record: I have never used any of that and have no intention or need to. I just saw the thread, tried it myself and saw what I posted.) Thanks for the input. Oh, and this is all happening on a Debian (Testing) machine.
