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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 11:40, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 13, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 :).

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.