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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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Subject: Re: Where is $PAGER defined?
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kenyon Ralph wrote:

> The subject says it all - Where is the environment variable $PAGER 
> defined?
>
> If I define PAGER myself in /etc/profile, it is still set to "more" 
> upon login.  I've done grep -R PAGER /etc and got nothing (except 
> /etc/profile of course, which apparently is being overridden).
[...]
> export PAGER="/usr/bin/less -MiR"

Don't forget that "less is more". They're hardlinked:
$ ls -i `which more`
9821489 /usr/bin/more
$ ls -i `which less`
9821489 /usr/bin/less

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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