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pipe a program into less

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202610889 views
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Problem

I'm taking the dive into setting up and learning git and at the same time learning bash. I'm trying to do something simple as view the help section of unfortunately, when I type that the output of the help goes off the screen. Doing some googling I found less to be the program I want to use to scro…

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$ git config

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Git is probably writing its output into standard error stream instead of standard output stream because command parameters are not correct. Please read about Unix standard streams here. To fix the problem you have to redirect the error stream into o…

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