Re: weird behaviour with 'less'

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 04/09/05

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Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:46:56 -0400

    On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:53 -0500, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I am experiencing a weird behaviour of the 'less' command. I wonder if
    > anyone else has it. It looks to me that everytime I invoke less, like
    >
    > > less somefile.txt
    >
    > it re-sources my .cshrc before executing. For example,
    >

    Check your $LESSOPEN environment variable. The default value for me is
    "|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s". If you look at /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, it's a
    (bourne) shell script. How or why this would end up executing a .cshrc,
    I don't know, but that LESSOPEN thing has caused more pain for me than
    it's helped (it never seems to work from an ssh terminal).

    At any rate, many utilities will end up having this behaviour (I suspect
    you may get the same thing trying to use /usr/bin/which). You may want
    to consider moving that stuff out of your .cshrc and into your .login
    file, so it only gets executed on login shells. 

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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@tarnation.dyndns.org>
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