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[John]

Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> 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)

This is clearer:
eval $(lesspipe)