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default to | less in terminal
Probably asked many times but searching went nowhere.
How do you make a terminal default to less or allow scrolling like man pages?
Working with no xwindows and tired of typing "cat somefile | less" and "ls | less". Tried adding "PAGER=less export PAGER" to /etc/profile but it didn't seem to work.
Thought of using aliases but couldn't wrap my head around the "somefile" part of cat="cat somefile | less"
edit:forgot to mention Slackware 10.1
edit/ nevermind, "less somefile" works fine.
*crawls away in embarasment*
Last edited by muddywaters; 05-20-2006 at 03:37 PM.
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