Default Solaris Man Pager
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



The title of this should actually say "Default Solaris man Pager Sucks" but in
the interest of professionalism, I left that last word out.

The Solaris default pager for man pages is "more". It unfortunately doesn't
support the friendly controls of "less", search highlighting, scrolling one
line at a time, etc. This is less functional than using "less" for your pager.
With that, let's have a look at how we fix this.

If you would like to change it,  you need to crack open your *.bashrc* and add
the following line... 

----
export PAGER="less"
----

Tada!

Launch bash and look up a man page.

As a friend of mine said in regards to this, "LESS is more than MORE."


One closing notes. This seems to be a very universal variable, so this should
also work with csh, ksh, sh, etc, though the rc file that needs to be edited
will be different.

Category:Solaris
Category:man


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