I’ve recently moved to using the terminal program alacritty, which does not natively do paging. This is not generally a problem since I can pipe results to less
.
$ ls dir-w-lots-of-files | less
However, I found myself working in command line MySQL and I got LOTS of results but could not page back.
It turns out you can set a pager in MySQL. Running the command pager less
, sets less
to be the pager.
MySQL> pager less
Now, I can get lots of results and review them with the standard less
commands (including search).
Note: I’ve gone back to using iTerm but I still find using the pager in MySQL helpful at times.
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