On Feb 26, 07, at 8:27 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:
I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.

Don't use "less".  Use "head" instead:

command | head -n N (where N is the number of lines of the output you want to see)

HTH!           --  Woody

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