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Re: less with subprocess

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:17:06PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> There's another major issue: since there is no blocking, this can take
> much disk space. Thus such a function must not be used in a case one
> may be interested only in the beginning of the output.

But ... even if you never press "F" in less to read the rest of
the input it's going to be stored somewhere, either in memory or
on disk.  What's the point in worrying bout temporry disk space?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt
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