bug with less ?

[Jesse Keating]

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On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:02, T. Howell-Cintron wrote:
> Less is using /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, which is hard-coded to view *.rpm
> files as the output of "rpm -qpivl --changelog" instead of the contents
> of the file itself.  You can unset LESSOPEN to revert to the expected
> behaviour.

Except I can't repro his issue.  I think less binary uses file magic to see 
if the file is actually an rpm or not before passing it off to lesspipe.  
I can less text files with ".rpm" on the end of them all day long here:

[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ less -V
less 382

[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ rpm -q less
less-382-3

[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ echo "I am not an rpm" >> mynew-1.2.i386.rpm
[jkeating at yoda jkeating]$ less mynew-1.2.i386.rpm
I am not an rpm
mynew-1.2.i386.rpm (END)


This is on FC2 x86_64.  I can do the same on 32bit FC2 (no testing packages 
on either)

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