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

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 14 17:20:17 UTC 2020


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.



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