Hello,
I am having problems with using less on
Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)). I am using csh but have the same problems on bash.
If I pipe something to less it works perfectly i.e. cat file | less
However if I do, less file, nothing happens apart from getting a new prompt line that doesn't display what I'm typing. If I type exit and press enter then I get the less output.
I was using less 394 and compiled less 429 on my system, but it had the same problem.
I looked on the less page FAQ (
Less FAQ) but couldn't find anything useful.
Anybody have any idea what's wrong?
Many thanks,
Dave