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		marcosdumay 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Assorted less(1) tips I'm reading it correctly that it will cause less to exit if you scroll until the end of file even if the file is larger than the terminal size?

Izkata 4 months ago [–]

Yeah; in both cases (text is larger or smaller than terminal) it makes "less" act the same as "more" with auto-exiting.

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