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aljustiet

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How can I make the less keep the output?

When I'm in archiso and I quit less, it keeps the output, which is useful since I don't need to open it again. How can I do that on the installed Arch?

stanczew

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Registered: 2021-03-02

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Re: How can I make the less keep the output?

https://man.archlinux.org/man/less.1.en#X

-X or --no-init
    Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings to the terminal. This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen.

aljustiet

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Re: How can I make the less keep the output?

https://man.archlinux.org/man/less.1.en#X

-X or --no-init
    Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings to the terminal. This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen.

I read the docs, but I didn't understand what that meant.

Awebb

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Re: How can I make the less keep the output?

Well, it said "does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen" :-)

stanczew

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Re: How can I make the less keep the output?

I read the docs, but I didn't understand what that meant.

No problem, I admit it's not obvious at first sight, and the manpage is quite long. I just like to cite my sources.