On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:07, William Lindley wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2002, Craig White wrote:
> > why not just alias it
> 
> how do i make an alias so the command:
> 
>     $ less foo.html
> 
> becomes
> 
>     $ less foo.html:
> 
> ?  there doesn't seem to be a command line switch to control the behavior.
> 
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less ~/.bashrc

# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

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therefore, I would think...

alias less='less:' would work but I just tried it and it doesn't work...

from man less

Options are also taken from the environment variable "LESS".  For
example, to avoid typing "less -options ..." each time less is invoked,
you might tell csh:

setenv LESS "-options"

or if you use sh:

LESS="-options"; export LESS

Craig