On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +0000, David W Noon wrote:

> I do know `man less`, `man more`, etc., and output redirection to file.
> Heck, I'm even old enough to know Ctl+S and Ctl+Q, as I used to
> program PDP-11s back in the 1970s. But none of those addresses the
> fundamental issue of sitting there watching all this crap.

emerge --sync | cat

It only produces all that output when stdout is a terminal.
Alternatively, redirect to /dev/null and you'll only see stderr.


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Neil Bothwick

Will the last human please uninstall internet.exe.