10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
12:26 a.m.
On 11/9/2017 12:19 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: It would be
nice if that was
the case for more and stdin.
# less
less: not found
# uname -a
SunOS vmsol7 5.7 Generic_106542-42 i86pc i386 i86pc
# find / -xdev -name less
#
It's not there in Solaris 7, and is there in Solaris 8. I wonder when
less started shipping with other operating systems?
more on Solaris 11.3 doesn't allow backup on stdin, nor on a recent
version of Debian Linux I checked.
I remember a while back that when man spawned more, it was stdin and
you couldn't back up on that either. Very annoying.
Isn't that the whole reason "less" exists?