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I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following:



PAGER=less


PS. When I do it in csh via



setenv PAGER less





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  • Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
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I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following:



PAGER=less


PS. When I do it in csh via



setenv PAGER less





bash man pager







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  • Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
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I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following:



PAGER=less


PS. When I do it in csh via



setenv PAGER less





bash man pager







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I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following:



PAGER=less


PS. When I do it in csh via



setenv PAGER less





bash man pager




bash man pager






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  • Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
    – schily
    25 secs ago

















  • Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
    – schily
    25 secs ago
















Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
– schily
25 secs ago





Do not use just less since the default is to use more -s. less seems to implement the same option. BTW: if you have an editor that allows you to exit a binary without destroing the binary, edit /usr/bin/man and replace nrodd -u0 by nroff -u1 for better readable output.
– schily
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PAGER=less


sets the shell variable PAGER to the value less. For man (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make PAGER an environment variable. You do this with export, either through



PAGER=less
export PAGER


or



export PAGER=less


A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with export. This is the same in all sh-like shells.






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    PAGER=less


    sets the shell variable PAGER to the value less. For man (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make PAGER an environment variable. You do this with export, either through



    PAGER=less
    export PAGER


    or



    export PAGER=less


    A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with export. This is the same in all sh-like shells.






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      PAGER=less


      sets the shell variable PAGER to the value less. For man (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make PAGER an environment variable. You do this with export, either through



      PAGER=less
      export PAGER


      or



      export PAGER=less


      A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with export. This is the same in all sh-like shells.






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        PAGER=less


        sets the shell variable PAGER to the value less. For man (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make PAGER an environment variable. You do this with export, either through



        PAGER=less
        export PAGER


        or



        export PAGER=less


        A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with export. This is the same in all sh-like shells.






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        PAGER=less


        sets the shell variable PAGER to the value less. For man (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make PAGER an environment variable. You do this with export, either through



        PAGER=less
        export PAGER


        or



        export PAGER=less


        A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with export. This is the same in all sh-like shells.







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