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

Pipe it to less -F aka --quit-if-one-screen:

Causes less to automatically exit if the entire file can be dis- played on the first screen.