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"WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" when using "man" as root
I know that this question has been posted a zillion times, but none of the answers I could find have solved it for me.
I have a root shell given by sudo bash. When I try to use man, I have this ...
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show man pages in terminal without a pager
man defaults to using a pager. For short pages, I want to just echo them to the terminal without paging. I'm on OS X. Things I've tried:
man -t man #produces PostScript output
man ...
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What does man [-acdfFhkKtwW] mean?
I am fairly new to using the OSX terminal, so before I move forward, I want to get good at finding information out for myself. So, I was reading about the manpages about manpages, and I saw that I ...
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how to make man page not disappear on exit
...probably a silly question but I could not beat google into telling me the answer so posting here:
I got 2 machines - Slackware 13 and Fedora 11.
On the slack machine, when I use man I can scroll ...
Alan