Re: Bug in 'more' command

[Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>]

Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:

> Why did you make it so complicated?  What's wrong with simply:
>
>     alias l='ls -lF|more -e'
>
> or perhaps:
>
>     export MORE=-e
>     alias l='ls -lF|more'

$ ls|more -e
more: unknown option -e
Try 'more --help' for more information.

I included the reason in my post by listing the Linux environments I use
and where I expect this to work. Interestingly the man page for more in
Debian 11 doesn't list -e but it seems to work anyway. But not on the
others I mentioned.

> Are you using some other shell, maybe?  Like zsh?

Of course. Should've noted that.