How to prevent Linux man pages from clearing after you quit reading

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 9, 2008 8:12 PM EDT
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Man pages are excellent resources for learning the specifics of a Linux command. After all, who can remember all the nitty gritty of a command? One annoyance of reading man pages on some Linux distributions is that after you quit reading it, the contents are cleared off screen. The man page contents simply don't stay around after you quit man. If that happens to you, it means that the default pager for viewing man pages is the less command.

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