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NAME

IO::Pager::Page - Emulate IO::Page, pipe STDOUT to a pager if STDOUT is a TTY

SYNOPSIS

Pipes STDOUT to a pager if STDOUT is a TTY

DESCRIPTION

IO::Pager was designed to programmatically decide whether or not to point the STDOUT file handle into a pipe to program specified in the PAGER environment variable or one of a standard list of pagers.

USAGE

BEGIN {
  use IO::Pager::Page;
  # use I::P::P first, just in case another module sends output to STDOUT
}
print<<HEREDOC;
...
A bunch of text later
HEREDOC

If you wish to forgo the potential for a Broken Pipe foible resulting from the user exiting the pager prematurely, load IO::Pager::Page like so:

use IO::Pager::Page hush=>1;

SEE ALSO

IO::Page, IO::Pager, IO::Pager::Unbuffered, IO::Pager::Buffered

AUTHOR

Jerrad Pierce <jpierce@cpan.org>

Florent Angly <florent.angly@gmail.com>

This module inspired by Monte Mitzelfelt's IO::Page 0.02

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2003-2015 Jerrad Pierce

  • Thou shalt not claim ownership of unmodified materials.

  • Thou shalt not claim whole ownership of modified materials.

  • Thou shalt grant the indemnity of the provider of materials.

  • Thou shalt use and dispense freely without other restrictions.

Or, if you prefer:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.