Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:40:34 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> Cc: nmlug@nmlug.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, nmosug-l@mailman.swcp.com, linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe Message-ID: <45E3D262.9080707@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <26face530702261927w553488a1uae8629aa3d827497@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530702261927w553488a1uae8629aa3d827497@mail.gmail.com>
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Kelly Jones wrote:
> Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just
> have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
> and/or to a file I specify).
>=20
> In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program termina=
tes.
Hit F
Makes less work rather like tail(1). Once your inferior process has
finished you need to hit Ctrl-C and then q to quit from less(1).
Cheers,
Matthew
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