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

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Fri Sep 13 21:13:52 UTC 2013


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.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
---
 miscutils/less.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/miscutils/less.c b/miscutils/less.c
index 60105f4..9b0478a 100644
--- a/miscutils/less.c
+++ b/miscutils/less.c
@@ -795,6 +795,9 @@ static void buffer_print(void)
 			print_found(buffer[i]);
 		else
 			print_ascii(buffer[i]);
+	if ((option_mask32 & FLAG_E) &&
+	    (max_fline - cur_fline) <= max_displayed_line)
+		less_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 	status_print();
 }
 
-- 
1.8.4.rc3



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