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

You could always pipe to less -E (this will cause less to automatically quit at the end of the file). For commands with short output it would do what you want. I don't think you can automatically pipe to less when there is a lot of output.