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colorize man pages

November 19, 2014 1 comment

Before
before

After
after

But how?

sudo apt-get install most

Then add this line to your ~/.bashrc:

export PAGER=most

Open a new terminal and try it.

Explanation
This tip is from here. As the user cannedprimates states, “you can solve this issue by using a different pager, for example most. man will actually use the program specified in the PAGER environment variable.”

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