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I'm using FreeNAS 9.2.10 console, which is based on FreeBSD. I'm trying to pipe the output of commands through less as a pager: zfs list -v <poolname> | less
.
What I get is the tail of the file - almost certainly not all of it since it starts 3/4 of the way through the alphabetic list at "R". In any case whatever I press to scroll up or down (page down, down arrow, space, enter), I get a page of tildes
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ END :
and can't see the file or page back (page up, up arrow, b, or whatever). I tried using -z10 both directly and via setenv to force a known situation where its page size was << file size, but it didn't do anything different.
What's going on, or what am I derping?
Could it be that everything goes to stderr? – Mateusz Piotrowski – 2017-02-28T00:48:52.423
Tildes mean that there is nothing to see from what I remember. You can try
-~
option forless
to get rid of them in case they are added byless
. – Mateusz Piotrowski – 2017-02-28T00:50:57.087You can also try
more
instead. – arrowd – 2017-02-28T06:02:14.487I tried
more
; it was evenless
helpful (no puns intended) – Stilez – 2017-02-28T10:39:36.713