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From: Peter Weilbacher <newsspam@weilbacher.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: less cannot work with emerge
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:01:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hb9uea$h02$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50910160505h1f543421ued8289f756ae2537@mail.gmail.com>

On 16.10.2009 14:05, Xi Shen wrote:
> when i use emerge, there are too many packaged that they cannot
> displayed in one screen. but i cannot use less to separate it into
> pages. why? please help ;)

Be sure to pipe both stdout and stderr to less, i.e.
   emerge <options> 2>&1 | less
when you are using bash.
   P.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 12:05 [gentoo-user] less cannot work with emerge Xi Shen
2009-10-16 12:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-16 12:33   ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-16 14:01 ` Peter Weilbacher [this message]
2009-10-19  9:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Xi Shen

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