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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:00:32 +1000, Colin Bell <col at squirrelsql.org> wrote:

> Under Debian putting the following in my .bashrc allows
> this to work. I don't know about Ubuntu.
> 
> eval `lesspipe`
> 
> lesspipe is found in /usr/bin/lesspipe

Just tried that and when I opened a new terminal, I got the following message:

export LESSOPEN="| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s";
export LESSCLOSE="/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s";

The functionality didn't change. Doh!

While there may be a really simple way to enable this, Patrick's (Mr.
Slackware) script is fairly lengthy. I don't know enough about shell
scripts to know if that makes it any better or smarter though.

-- 
Aaron

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