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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