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Sending output to a pipe
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It has clearly been a while since I tried this, so I was quite surprised when

```
.once |less
```

fired up the `less` command *immediately*, rendering me unable to execute the sql command I had intended to. I had expected sqlite to wait for me to type in a query, then execute the query, and finally firing up the command and piping the query output into it.

Am I doing this wrong?