in reply to How to know whether user terminates system("$cmd|more") with q or not?
I'm trying to imagine why you care whether the user views all the output...
But anyhow, what if the user enters Q or Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z or ! pkill more?
Update:
$ man more EXIT STATUS The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. --More--(90%)
And (at least) the following are considered successful completion:
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