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1 Default Solaris Man Pager
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 The title of this should actually say "Default Solaris man Pager Sucks" but in
10 the interest of professionalism, I left that last word out.
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12 The Solaris default pager for man pages is "more". It unfortunately doesn't
13 support the friendly controls of "less", search highlighting, scrolling one
14 line at a time, etc. This is less functional than using "less" for your pager.
15 With that, let's have a look at how we fix this.
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17 If you would like to change it, you need to crack open your *.bashrc* and add
18 the following line...
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21 export PAGER="less"
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24 Tada!
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26 Launch bash and look up a man page.
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28 As a friend of mine said in regards to this, "LESS is more than MORE."
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31 One closing notes. This seems to be a very universal variable, so this should
32 also work with csh, ksh, sh, etc, though the rc file that needs to be edited
33 will be different.
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35 Category:Solaris
36 Category:man
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