How can I send a keystroke like 'q' to a script that ends with a call to less?

test.sh

ls -l | less

If I call test.sh it hangs and waits for the user type 'q'. How can I do something like this:

echo 'q' | test.sh

And have the script exit?

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1 Answer

You can do this, which still have less page the output, but it will exit when it hits eof.

LESS=-E ./test.sh

or

./test.sh | cat

which just dumps the output to the screen.

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