[systemd-devel] A bug in systemctl ( systemd-125)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 08.07.14 22:15, brane2 (brankob at s5tehnika.net) wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> I thought to inform you that I came across a bug within systemctl.
> Some options produce no output, although according to manuals and
> examples it should.
> 
> Like for example:
> 
> systemctl -t mount
> 
> But if I send systemctl's output through pipe, I get output.
> 
> So:
> 
> systemctl -t mount | cat
> 
> actually produces output.
> 
> Interesting thing is that same example without "-t mount" filter
> works, like simple systemctl without arguments.

Most likely your $PAGER is set to something weird?

systemd (like git, ...) does autopaging, where it will automatically
pass long outputs to "less" or some other pager.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat