Where did I set that most displays my man pages?

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Wed Oct 28 08:49:42 UTC 2009


Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Where did I set in Ubuntu 8.04.3 that the pager "most" will display
> my man pages?
> I forgot in what file I added a line of text with the string "most".
> I run '~$ rgrep 'PAGER=' /home/detlef/ 2>/dev/null' but could not
> find 'most' in the output.

Maybe you should search for the term "most" instead. You might have an 
alias like this:

alias man='man -P most'

Or perhaps you are looking in the wrong location - it might be set 
somewhere in "/etc".


Nils





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