Once upon a time, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr(a)redhat.com> said:
Agreed: I find this irritating too (and the default SYSTEMD_PAGER
_is_
less so I'm not sure how it's being run).
Setting PIPE or piping to a pager is even worse - the lines are
truncated at 77 chars regardless of the term width so for now I'm
running journalctl --no-pager -a | less to get wrapped lines in a pager.
Yeah, systemd's behavior of "magically" doing things based on tty or
pipe is highly annoying. If I want paging, line wraps, or truncation, I
have tools to do that. Having to constantly go back and add options
(after stopping to look up said options) to get unfiltered output is
frustrating.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.