[5581] in testers
less filename does not display file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Thu Jun 26 23:01:00 2003
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:00:59 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
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On a Linux 9.2.7 machine, "less filename.txt" does not actually show the
file, when the .cshrc.mine prints stuff. Instead, it appears that
.cshrc.mine is executed, and the output of that is displayed instead.
As I learned recently, the .cshrc.mine file is not supposed to print
anything, so I don't know whether this qualifies as a bug or not.
"some_command | less" however, worked perfectly fine.
On test.dialup, though, "less filename.txt" works perfectly fine, as
does piping a command into less.
I've had no problems with less'ing files on any 9.1 machine.
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Kevin Chen
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