> > And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
> > the moment.
> on my system dpkg --help | less works fine. The person who had trouble
> with it said it did not work for him/her. Now the problem would be because
> their dpkg --help writes to STDERR and not STDOUT. In w
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 05:46:00AM +, Ian Watkins wrote:
> DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem
> DM> into
> DM> try
> DM> dpkg --help |& less
>
> DM> for tcsh
>
> And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
> the moment.
dpkg
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
>
> IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
> IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come
> into
try
dpkg --help |& less
II> IW> Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT al
II> IW> other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have wo
II> IW> expected.
II> Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This
II> expected behavior, and a bug is already filed.
Right.
> On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into
IW> the picture at all.
To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all t
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