weird behaviour with 'less'

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Apr 8, 2005 3:29 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 3:53 PM, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am experiencing a weird behaviour of the 'less' command. I wonder if
> > anyone else has it. It looks to me that everytime I invoke less, like
> >
> > > less somefile.txt
> >
> > it re-sources my .cshrc before executing. For example,
> > [...]
> 
> Did you maybe alias 'less' to something funny? Does it behave normally
> when you explicitly run /usr/bin/less?
> 
> This isn't happening to me but I don't run csh or have a .cshrc.

Nope, no alias. and /usr/bin/less <myfile> has the same result. I'm
using tcsh, but that shouldn't make any difference, I believe. (Or
should it? Why?)

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