Re^3: pipe to less crash

So, if you don't want your program to die, why do you use close or die? There are valid situations when close returns a false value, as you've found out, for example when the receiving end of the pipe has gone away.

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Re^4: pipe to less crash by Anonymous Monk on Jul 05, 2011 at 13:47 UTC
The way my program works is that the user sees a list of files and they can choose one and it will open with less, but then once they exit less, I want them to be brought to the program.	[reply]
Re^5: pipe to less crash by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 05, 2011 at 14:10 UTC
I'm sorry that I was unclear in my response. In your code, you use the following statement: `close LESS or die "can't close: status = $?";` [download] ... but you do not seem to want your program to die. So, a solution is to not call die instead: `close LESS;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]