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Hubro
Asked: 2020-02-26 10:02:08 +0800 CST

Is there any way to "stop following" in less without pressing Ctrl+C?

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If I pipe the output of a long-running command to less, for example:

foreman start | less -SR

And I now press F to follow the output of foreman, is there any way to tell less to stop following, without pressing CtrlC? Because that will also send the SIGINT to the process being piped from, in this case foreman, which will make it stop.

I just want to temporarily stop following so I can scroll and examine the output for a bit.

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