[PATCH] less: respect -E (quit at EOF)

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 16 17:52:21 UTC 2013


On Friday 13 September 2013 23:13, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> less displays -E in help text, but it's not doing anything. Make it quit
> less when the last lines of the file have been printed.

Buggy. Try this command:

{ sleep 1; cat busybox_unstripped.map; sleep 1; } | ./busybox less -E

in the build tree. less will exit immediately, even though
not entire input is seen yet.

You probably want to also check that (eof_error <= 0).

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vda


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