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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:36:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Chris W <1qazse4 AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: bashrc
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:

> Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>
> >Type this at the bash prompt;
> >$ MANPAGER="${MANPAGER}p ^INVOCATION" man bash
> >and hit enter.
>
> What is that supposed to do?  All I get is an error.

That's supposed to show you the part of the bash manpage dealing with
invocation.  However, it makes an assumption that you have MANPAGER
defined, which you probably don't.

> p: not found
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/cat
> '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1'; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl
> | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc | p ^INVOCATION) exited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for bash

Try this instead:
$ MANPAGER='/usr/bin/less -isrRp ^INVOCATION' man bash
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	Igor
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