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  • From: Robin Sheat <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] PAGER of sorcery
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:58:35 +1300

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:05:56AM +0100, shivaken wrote:
> You can't use pipe and grep with some PAGER like less.
> PAGER is denying to use unix power.
I think it detects if you are piping somewhere else, and if you are it
doesn't use a pager. For example:
$ gaze install Wine
<opens in less>
$ gaze install Wine | grep usr
/usr/bin/function_grep.pl
/usr/bin/notepad
/usr/bin/progman
/usr/bin/regedit
/usr/bin/regsvr32
...

on stdout.

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