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Re: [Sheflug] Man search



Jonathan wrote:

Chris Johnson wrote:

If I'm looking at man pages (e.g. for smb.conf) is there any way I can skip
to or search for an instance of a particular word (e.g. security)???
Or do I just have to read right through it all?

Pressing / then typing the word you're after normally works. Depends if you're using things non-standard to look at the man pages, but it works on most implementations I think.
Depends on man pager settings - coming either from PAGER or MANPAGER environment variable.
By default is usually /usr/bin/less.
in my man config file (/etc/man.config) I 've got PAGER set to /usr/bin/less -isr
which I assume is a default, since I don't remember changing it :)
Best regards,
Denis.

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