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Subject: Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe
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Matthew Seaman wrote:

>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).
>>
>>In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates.
>>    
>>
>
>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).
>  
>
You learns something new every day...

In a similar vein, I use G which jumps to the end-of-file.  If there is 
a lot of output less does nothing until it hits EOF and then just shows 
you the end of the output.  I suspect that of being quicker since it 
won't spend any time scrolling output to the screen.

--Alex