How to automatically pipe to less if the result is more than a page on my shell?

Question

Mostly, I will not use | less for each and every command from the shell.

Pipe to less is used only when I actually run the command without is and find out t

Answer 1

I wrote this wrapper function and put it in my .profile. You can use this before a command and it will automatically pipe it to less if it is longer than 1 page.

lcmd ()
{
    echo "$("$@")" | less -F;
};

So 'lcmd ls' would ls the current directory and pipe that output to less.