Can pagination be disabled on the Bird console?
Ondrej Zajicek
santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Mar 9 15:30:09 CET 2022
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 01:44:05PM +0000, Adrian Brooks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to configure the Bird console so that the output isn't interrupted with '-More-' statements please? (similar to the Cisco 'terminal length 0' command)
>
> I'm using Expect in a Python script to collect data from Bird, so it would be handy to be able to switch this off (I'm using 2.0.9)
Hi
There is no such option, but it uses pagination only on terminal. If you
call birdc with a pipe on stdin, pagination is not used.
Also, you can use birdc with commands as arguments (i.e. 'birdc show
route'), then pagination is also not used.
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