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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:45:07 +1100
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        "Kenyon Ralph" <kralph@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is $PAGER defined?
Message-ID:  <20060322234507.3ec7531a@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <13d4d6bb0603220348m4aee6c81t4f136076eaea2d10@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <13d4d6bb0603220348m4aee6c81t4f136076eaea2d10@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:48:50 -0800
"Kenyon Ralph" <kralph@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).

~/.bashrc

i believe its run after .profile (and the system wide /etc/profile), so
it gets overriden.

it may also depend on your shell of choice (bash v3 here)

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