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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:20:19 +0100
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r367678 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <a5026b8b-d654-b29f-bb11-7add634ac6fa@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202011141559.0AEFx1j0071546@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <202011141559.0AEFx1j0071546@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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Hello Rodney,

On 11/14/20 4:59 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
>> Date: Sat Nov 14 13:07:41 2020
>> New Revision: 367678
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367678
>>
>> Log:
>>    Document the PAGER environment variable
>>    
>>    Sometimes users want to use freebsd-update(8) in a non-interactive way and
>>    what they often miss is that they have to set PAGER to cat(1) in order to
>>    avoid interactive prompts from less(1).
> Which was caused by the change of invoking more(1) as less(1) causing
> this regression, as when invoked as more(1) it falls off the end of
> empty input and causes no such interactive prompt.
>
> Setting PAGER to more(1) also fixes this.

Mmm, I'm not sure if that would work. If I run "jot 1000 | more" in my terminal I still get an 
interactive prompt. Could it be that you are referring to a different more(1) implementation? I'm 
clearly missing something.




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