lesspipe
brew install lesspipe
v2.27
GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT AND (Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later)
Input filter for the pager less
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30-day installs · #1554
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90-day · #1614
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365-day · #2002
Runtime dependencies
Links
- https://lesspipe.org
- Brew formula source: Formula/l/lesspipe.rb
Caveats
add the following to your shell profile e.g. ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc: export LESSOPEN="|$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/lesspipe.sh %s"
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