svn commit: r367678 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update

[Kyle Evans]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:20 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Rodney,
>
> On 11/14/20 4:59 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
> >> Date: Sat Nov 14 13:07:41 2020
> >> New Revision: 367678
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367678
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    Document the PAGER environment variable
> >>
> >>    Sometimes users want to use freebsd-update(8) in a non-interactive way and
> >>    what they often miss is that they have to set PAGER to cat(1) in order to
> >>    avoid interactive prompts from less(1).
> > Which was caused by the change of invoking more(1) as less(1) causing
> > this regression, as when invoked as more(1) it falls off the end of
> > empty input and causes no such interactive prompt.
> >
> > Setting PAGER to more(1) also fixes this.
>
> Mmm, I'm not sure if that would work. If I run "jot 1000 | more" in my terminal I still get an
> interactive prompt. Could it be that you are referring to a different more(1) implementation? I'm
> clearly missing something.
>

more(1) is more or less like `less -E`, which is a default PAGER I had
advocated for back when it changed. It can be mostly non-interactive
as long as your diffs are small, but it's definitely much less
painful.