Bug 768601

Summary: systemctl should default to --no-pager
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Trevor Cordes <trevor>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint
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Description Trevor Cordes 2011-12-17 11:07:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
systemctl --all automatically runs output through a pager!  This is anathema to the U*IX way.  We aren't running Windows here.  We all know how to pipe to |less if we want a pager.  What other sysadmin program goes through a pager by default?

Yes, we can specify --no-pager each time (or make an alias) but we shouldn't have to.  The default should be to not use a pager and a new option should be made called --pager which would let people still have this awful behaviour on request.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-37-3.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl --all
  
Actual results:
pipes into your PAGER

Expected results:
don't pipe into pager, let us decide how to

Additional info:
Yes, a political decision, but one that most u*ix-heads will agree on.
Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2011-12-19 06:27:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 713567 ***