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FreeBSD noob here. When I run freebsd-update fetch on a fresh install of FreeBSD 12.0, it ends with, well, End, without taking me back to a prompt. How do I exit this screen?

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Reset to default
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It looks like you're in a pager, such as less or more. Try pressing the q key (a mnemonic for Quit).

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  • Thanks! I kept typing :q like I would in Linux; never occurred to me to try a solitary q.
    – LearningFast
    Feb 23, 2019 at 0:24
  • In the absence of a pager setting it defaults to more or less, however, setting to less requires the -e option to quit on end. PAGER="less -e" freebsd-update fetch PAGER can be set to “cat” when a non-interactive pager is desired
    – Richard
    Jul 8, 2021 at 19:16
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the freebsd-update script uses PAGER from env, irritates me, so I do the following

in ~/.cshrc 

setenv PAGER less

change to 

setenv PAGER

and in ~/.profile 

PAGER=less
export PAGER

change to

PAGER=
export PAGER

if PAGER doesn't exist, the freebsd-update script sets it itself, so you need to leave the export with no value. it will obviously affect all scripts using PAGER too, but regardless, I'd rather use less intentionally.

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