sibprogrammer/xq

Automatic pagination does not work

mloskot opened this issue · 2 comments

mloskot commented

Problem Statement

The README says "Automatic pagination" but there seem to be no pagination applied by default, neither xq --help lists a dedicated option.

I'm using the current latest installed with go. Interestingly, it reports Zero version

$ xq --version
xq version 0.0.0 (unknown, 000000)

Steps to Reproduce

curl https://example.com/long-file.xml | xq

Actual Result

xq outputs hundreds of lines of the long-file.xml

Expected Result

less-like pagination?

p.s. Thank you for xq. It's an awesome idea with jq/yq-like potential. The fact it's written in Go makes it even more awesome!

sibprogrammer commented

I'm using the current latest installed with go. Interestingly, it reports Zero version

Yes, it's expected. The final binary is prepared/compiled on your machine, so some attributes of the build process are absent.

less-like pagination?

It exists already (see https://github.com/sibprogrammer/xq/blob/master/internal/utils/utils.go#L340), but availability depends on the pager's presence.

Could you check the output of the following command: echo $PAGER ?
If the variable is empty, try to set it export PAGER=less and check the results.

p.s. Thank you for xq

Thank you for your support, @mloskot :)

mloskot commented

Ha! The PAGER was empty in my Git Bash. Sorry for false report then.