[ale] MOST, was: Re: I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Thu Jul 8 14:01:01 EDT 2010


On Thu July 8 2010, James Sumners wrote:
> The typical man page viewer (PAGER) is `more`. But you could just as
> easily use `less` or something else. In fact, I use `most` as my
> viewer. I use the following line in my ~/.bashrc to make the change:
>
> [ -e "`which most`" ] && export PAGER='most'
>
> Then you can use whatever search command your pager uses to search the
> manual you are currently viewing.

I did not have most installed..

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