[forbes]

This seems very interesting. After a quick play I cannot find anything similar to 'less' which I use very frequently. Is there a nushell equivalent?

[eigenrick]

The equivalent is called `textview` which is a built-in which tries to be a bit more intelligent than `less` with regard to file-types.

The default viewer, which sort of runs at the end of every pipeline is called `autoview`.

Now.. autoview should be calling textview in the cases where the pipeline detects a large text value. It is possible that you're not exactly running a pipeline.

For instance: If you run:

    cat big.log

it is not running a pipeline, just an external command.

If you run:

    open big.log

 you're invoking nushell's mechanism for creating a pipeline sourced by the contents of big.log.  You should also notice that textview is invoked, because there should be a pager. 

Alternatively, you can choose to create a pipeline by pipe-ing the output of cat big.log into something. If you pipe it to textview you should see the same result:

    cat big.log | textview 

Hope that helps!

[forbes]

The command that I was trying to use was 'ls', which doesn't seem to play with textview when I try it out 'ls | textview' (just no output at all). textview does work for me with files, as in your example.

[kbd]

less is a program, why can’t you use it from nu?

[forbes]

If you use less with a filename, it will work. I normally pipe things to less which doesn't seem to work for me in nu. less shows an empty input.

This is possibly me just doing something wrong.

[kbd]

`cat notes.txt | less` works fine for me in nu 0.18.1

[scns]

Maybe file an issue?