Bash is waiting for me to press q in order to continue when running command, how do I stop it?

[eyalya]

When I run command that has an output, for example aws cli command, I see the result but need to press q in order to continue. I think this is cause by using less. When I run script and just want to see the printing on the screen, and I dont want to press after every output.
How do I cancel it (even temporary only for the command).
Thanks

[akinomyoga]

When I run command that has an output,

So does the problem happen even with e.g. echo hello? Usually, this kind of behavior is configured for each command, but do you mean you need to press q for every command that has an output?

for example aws cli command,

AWS_PAGER is the environment variable that controls the behavior of aws CLI command, but I don't think oh-my-bash contains the settings for AWS_PAGER.

What is the result of the following command?

$ echo "$AWS_PAGER"

[eyalya]

Hi,
The variable is empty.
Before I installed the oh-my-bash it was running without it

[akinomyoga]

Thanks for checking the variable AWS_PAGER. So, it means that other settings are causing the problem. Does this problem happen with every command that has any output? For example, does it happen even with echo hello?

[akinomyoga]

Ah, OK. The AWS document about cli pagination says that aws is affected also by the environment variable PAGER. In fact, oh-my-bash sets PAGER to less on this line.

You can just unset the variable PAGER after sourcing oh-my-bash.sh in your ~/.bashrc. You can add the following line at the end of ~/.bashrc:

unset -v PAGER

If you would like to turn off the paging of AWS while keeping the environment variable PAGER for other commands, you may instead edit ~/.aws/config to make cli_pager empty as described in this secion.

[akinomyoga]

Did this solve your problem? I have created an answer #391 (comment) for a brief conclusion.

[akinomyoga]

Here I summarize an answer for other users to easily find a solution.

Oh My Bash sets the environment variable PAGER=less. If you do not want it, you can unset it after source "$OSH"/oh-my-bash.sh in your ~/.bashrc. For example, at the end of your ~/.bashrc, you can add the following line:

# End of bashrc

unset -v PAGER

If you wouldn't like to use the pager at all instead of using the default specified in other places, you may instead try setting an empty value to PAGER (suggested by @eyalya):

# End of bashrc

export PAGER=

If you would like to turn it off for each command, you need to configure it for each command. For example, in the case of the aws CLI command, you can specify it through cli_pager in ~/.aws/config.

[eyalya]

Hi,
When I run in terminal unset -v PAGER it didn't remove it, but when I run export PAGER= it did work. I will leave it, but now I know how to cancel it when running scripts. Thanks

[akinomyoga]

Thanks for the information! Hmm, OK. I'll update the answer.

[akinomyoga]

I have updated it. Thank you!