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Interesting - I must have had an older version and not played with it. The version I had did not have 's3 sync', and the help files were a long list of ec2 commands and some boilerplate headings.

Reinstalled and now they have shorter, saner commands and real help pages... and they also changed the pager from 'less' (my default pager) to the crappy 'more'... because (apparently) you never want to go back a page in a help file. More detailed content, but it's harder to review. Odd.





Well, GP isn't just imagining things. The pager for this is at most the equivalent of crap-ass "more" right out of the box, on systems where all other cli executables have better pagers.

    $ PAGER=/usr/bin/less aws help
...does seem to do the right thing, but why does this program require it when no other program does?




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