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Subject:	Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:40:50 -0600
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After opening "man ls", trying to search for "--all" leads to
"Pattern not found (press RETURN)".

Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of search to 
work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, that does not 
seem to work in Cygwin, at least using the old default terminal. Is 
there a workaround?


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