bug with less ?
Jesse Keating
jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Jul 9 14:47:52 UTC 2004
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On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:02, T. Howell-Cintron wrote:
> Less is using /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, which is hard-coded to view *.rpm
> files as the output of "rpm -qpivl --changelog" instead of the contents
> of the file itself. You can unset LESSOPEN to revert to the expected
> behaviour.
Except I can't repro his issue. I think less binary uses file magic to see
if the file is actually an rpm or not before passing it off to lesspipe.
I can less text files with ".rpm" on the end of them all day long here:
[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ less -V
less 382
[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ rpm -q less
less-382-3
[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ echo "I am not an rpm" >> mynew-1.2.i386.rpm
[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ less mynew-1.2.i386.rpm
I am not an rpm
mynew-1.2.i386.rpm (END)
This is on FC2 x86_64. I can do the same on 32bit FC2 (no testing packages
on either)
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