Default Solaris man Pager

The title of this should actually say "Default Solaris man Pager Sucks" but in the interest of professionalism, I left that last word out.

The Solaris default pager for man pages is "more". It unfortunately doesnt support the friendly controls of "less", search highlighting, etc. This is less functional than using "less" for your pager. With that, let's have a look at how we fix this.

If you would like to change it,  you need to crack open your .bash_profile and add the following line... export PAGER="less"

Tada!

Launch bash and look up a man page.

As a friend of mine said in regards to this, "LESS is more than MORE."