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		pjc50 on Oct 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hints for writing Unix tools I've just realised that the best solution to this (which I've never seen) is for the shell or terminal emulator to capture long output into a pager for you once it exceeds a certain length.

dkuntz2 on Oct 21, 2014 [–]

I think there may be some flags in pagers to do this for you, but I can't remember for sure.

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