Bug 191315

Summary: Less shows a blank line before showing a file
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Penelope Fudd <bugzilla.redhat.com>
Component: lessAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Penelope Fudd 2006-05-10 18:27:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
Less adds a blank line to the top of a file when viewing a file versus viewing
the same data from a pipe.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
less-394-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l > /tmp/ls-l
2. cat /tmp/ls-l | less
3. less /tmp/ls-l
  
Actual results:
Extra blank line at the top of the first page

Expected results:


Additional info:
This is after patching less by adding 'DECOMPRESSOR=cat'; see bug 191308.
Comment 1 Penelope Fudd 2006-05-10 21:14:27 UTC 
Never mind; there was an 'echo' in my .cshrc script that was causing this.