Hi all!

There was this nifty thing that less would do on Suse, and I'm currently not
able to reproduce on gentoo: Have less display the file and immediately
quit if fits on one screen, mimicking cat.

On gentoo, normally, less alyways takes up the entire screen, even if the
file would fit on one screen (so cat would have been sufficient to display
it). The less option --quit-if-one-screen comes close, but not close
enough: Less quits immediately if the file would have fit on one screen,
without diplaying it. How can I make less display-and-quit-if-one-screen?

Thanks,
Anno

Anno,

Try this:

less -FX <file name>


Anno v. Heimburg wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> There was this nifty thing that less would do on Suse, and I'm currently not
> able to reproduce on gentoo: Have less display the file and immediately
> quit if fits on one screen, mimicking cat.
>
> On gentoo, normally, less alyways takes up the entire screen, even if the
> file would fit on one screen (so cat would have been sufficient to display
> it). The less option --quit-if-one-screen comes close, but not close
> enough: Less quits immediately if the file would have fit on one screen,
> without diplaying it. How can I make less display-and-quit-if-one-screen?
>
> Thanks,
> Anno

> less -FX <file name>

Yup, that's close. It will add some blank lines at the beginning, but other
than that, it does what I wanted. Thanks a bunch.