How do I automatically exit a bash script that ends with a less

How can I send a keystroke like 'q' to a script that ends with a call to less?

test.sh

ls -l | less 

If I call test.sh it hangs and waits for the user type 'q'. How can I do something like this:

echo 'q' | test.sh 

And have the script exit?

1 Answer

You can do this, which still have less page the output, but it will exit when it hits eof.

LESS=-E ./test.sh 

or

./test.sh | cat 

which just dumps the output to the screen.