I have this code chunk somewhere in a program I'm writing:

sub display {
    my $file = shift;
    my $plaintext = `gpg --decrypt $file`;
    open PAGER, "|less";
    print PAGER $plaintext;
    close PAGER;
}

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gpg decrypts the file, I get the plaintext in $plaintext. Then I pipe it into less and less displays it fine. But the problem is that when the user exits less, the whole program quits with a "Broken pipe".

How can I solve that problem? No, I don't want to use the shell and simply write `gpg --decrypt $file | less`.

In reply to How to page some text by nomis80

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