On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> So it doesn't detect the dash line when running remotely. Hmm. Maybe the
>> transmission modifies the line ending, or does something funny with dash
>> lines? Well, just for testing, make a file with the line "ZYXWV", change
>> the script to
>>
>> if echo "$line" | grep -q -e '^ZYXWV' ; then
>>
>> and see if it works then. The failure I had expected was /dev/console not
>> working, so you'd pound on "enter" to no avail.
>>
>> Also did you try "more -24 filename"? Might need a "TERM=dumb" in there
>> too.
>
> Tried it all and still get the same results, not quite sure if I did the
> TERM-dumb part right, and I tried that with less....
Equals, not dash; the syntax is
TERM=dumb more -24 filename
It sets the variable TERM to the value "dumb" for just the "more" command,
whereas "TERM=dumb" would set it permanently (well, until you did something
that changed it).
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