8.110. less
8.110.1. RHBA-2014:0755 — less bug fix update
Updated less packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The "less" utility is a text file browser that resembles "more", but allows users to move backwards in the file as well as forwards. Since "less" does not read the entire input file at startup, it also starts more quickly than ordinary text editors.
Bug Fix
- BZ#615303
- Previously, the lesspipe script returned incorrect exit status codes. As a consequence, the less utility failed to decompress empty files that had been compressed with the gzip utility, and an unwanted message was displayed. With this update, a pipe character ("|") has been added in front of the LESSOPEN environment variable to enforce a new default behavior of lesspipe. For backward compatibility, lesspipe has the same behavior if LESSOPEN remains unchanged. As a result, the less utility now detects and displays empty files correctly.
Users of less are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
