Re: Stupid man question



scott wrote:
Got a stupid man question for you all. When running the man command
a t command prompt you hit the space bar to finally get to the end.
When at the end, how do you get out of it?

The answer is already given as `q`. If you read `man man` you will
notice the following:

PAGER If $PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program
used to display the manual page. By default, /usr/bin/less -s
is used.

This means that less is used by default. Read `man less` on more about
less.

houghi
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