Re: Option -p in apropos(1)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On 2022-05-17 04:33, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> On mag 16 21:51, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
>
> > It does accept $PAGER as a definition of what tool to use for the
> > purpose, though that wasn't documented in the apropos(1) man page. I
> > just added it.
>
> FTR, for some reason in my default env(1) variable PAGER is not set: it
> is empty. However, if (for example) I try to set it to `more', 
> apropos(1)
> behaves as described yesterday, so there are no improvements.

Yes, it won't be set by default, no more than $APROPOS would be. I
didn't mean to imply setting it will fix your issue, I was just noting
it wasn't documented before. You'd have to try a patched version of the
apropos(1) command.

Regards,

Dave