Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 11:40, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:

On Dec 13, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:

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It seems this became the default at some point.

systemctl -l --no-pager

is the way to get it without that. The whole does it use a pager, does it ellipse, etc has been a long fight where various people complain enough to get it one way or another. It usually goes with the group that complains the nicest versus the ones who complain the worst :).

You can fix the symptom with the software as delivered:

 $ export SYSTEMD_LESS='-FR'

Thanks . I did the alias a long time that I forgot about the line you actually quote in the next email :).