On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, carolus wrote:
After opening "man ls", trying to search for "--all" leads to
"Pattern not found (press RETURN)".
My experiment agrees with that. Do you know why that happens -- what
is it doing so "/--all" doesn't work?
Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of
search to work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However,
that does not seem to work in Cygwin, at least using the old default
terminal. Is there a workaround?
Whether in an older default terminal or the new one, I've never had a
problem with
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
export PAGER
I do them as separate statements because older Bourne shells do not
allow the combined form
export PAGER=/usr/bin/less
But bash does.
Further, on my system with little customization, the default man pager
is less anyway, so (for example)
man ls
invokes less anyway.
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