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[Daniel Silverstone]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 05:18 -0400, volvoguy 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!

Erm, are you sure you used backticks there and not quote marks?

eval 'lesspipe'

is very very different to

eval `lesspipe`

the latter is correct (and uses backwards apostrophes)

D.

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