Where is $PAGER defined?
    Chris Hill 
    chris at monochrome.org
       
    Thu Mar 23 02:44:43 UTC 2006
    
    
  
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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