Hello Adrian, I don't have an answer to your questions, but might I suggest a whole different approach to your script? If you install Birdwatcher [1] then you put all the heavy lifting to parsing the birdc output to Birdwatcher. All you have to do is talk to a JSON API in your Python code. I think this makes your life a lot easier. I've used Birdwatcher in combination with PHP scripting and it works great! So, not an answer to your question, but I do hope that my e-mail is still useful for you. Kind regards, Cybertinus [1]: https://github.com/alice-lg/birdwatcher On 2022-03-09 14:44, Adrian Brooks wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to configure the Bird console so that the output isn't interrupted with '--More--' statements please? (similar to the Cisco 'terminal length 0' command)

I'm using Expect in a Python script to collect data from Bird, so it would be handy to be able to switch this off (I'm using 2.0.9)

Many thanks for your time,

Adrian

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 01:44:05PM +0000, Adrian Brooks wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to configure the Bird console so that the output isn't interrupted with '-More-' statements please? (similar to the Cisco 'terminal length 0' command)

I'm using Expect in a Python script to collect data from Bird, so it would be handy to be able to switch this off (I'm using 2.0.9)

Hi There is no such option, but it uses pagination only on terminal. If you call birdc with a pipe on stdin, pagination is not used. Also, you can use birdc with commands as arguments (i.e. 'birdc show route'), then pagination is also not used. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."