On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:06 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, john.flor...@dart.biz <john.flor...@dart.biz> said: > > While I'm no more important than the next guy, I'll defend the auto-pager > > feature of both git and journalctl. I love it, in fact. I'm no stranger > > to very long pipelines and sub-shells but I see nothing but benefit in not > > having to add "| less" routinely to things that are UI in nature. > > My primary objection is that I don't like things that have differing > behavior between a TTY and a pipe. One problem is if you are writing a > script to process output from something, you'll probably run the command > in a TTY to check the output, but you'll get different results. > > There are not many programs that have such TTY/pipe behavior. The only > ones that come to mind are "ps" (where output is truncated at screen > width)
Indeed, I've always thought it would be wonderful if "ps" could auto-page its output when run on TTY if the output is larger/longer than a screen. It's just plain annoying to run a command, realize that the one piece of information you wanted is truncated out of the screen, and then have to run it second time with " | less" added. -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
