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aztech
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 Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 7:23 pm Post subject: manpage reader |
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How do I set most to be the default manreader ??!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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why the heck did you post a quesiton in the tips and tricks forum?!
please read the guidelines. This is a "post your trick/tip here" section.
I promis you will get no responces besides verbal bashings until one of the moderators notices this post and either deletes it or moves it.
please read the guidelines. is it that hard?
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Moving to General Linux, as it's a man thing not a Gentoo thing.
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 2:37 am Post subject: |
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You need to set the PAGER variable to 'most'. Putting:
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PAGER=/usr/bin/most
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at the bottom of /etc/profile will do it for bash and
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setenv PAGER /usr/bin/most
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at the bottom of /etc/csh.cshrc should do it for tcsh. |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 11:35 am Post subject: |
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If you don't like setting PAGER, you can also set MANPAGER to use 'most' only for man. man -P most ... will also work.
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You need to do:
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export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/most
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in /etc/profile since MANPAGER is not exported from profile.env already.
| Naan Yaar wrote: | You need to set the PAGER variable to 'most'. Putting:
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PAGER=/usr/bin/most
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at the bottom of /etc/profile will do it for bash and
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setenv PAGER /usr/bin/most
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at the bottom of /etc/csh.cshrc should do it for tcsh. |
Last edited by Naan Yaar on Wed Jul 31, 2002 3:49 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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masseya
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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I had to use | Code: | | export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most" |
to get this to work for bash.
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Naan Yaar
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Yeah... PAGER is already exported in profile.env; so you would not have to say "export" again in /etc/profile. If you want to set MANPAGER, you would need to add "export" in front in your /etc/profile since it is not exported previously. Thanks. I will add it to my previous post.
| Tristam29 wrote: | I had to use | Code: | | export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most" |
to get this to work for bash. |
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