Re: searching function inside 'man'

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man generally pipes the output through "less", using it as the
pager.  Read the man page for less to find out all your options.
Read the man page for man, and you can see how to change your
default pager.
-Bob Arendt

David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> man works like so many editors in Unix, so you can use /window to find
> the window word.
> 
> However, I tend to use info instead of man, who can open both man and
> info pages, and uses 's' or Ctrl+s for searches.
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 20:36, Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>After starting 'man' command on a document say e.g 
>>
>>'man mozilla'
>>
>>what command shall be used to search a line/word containing e.g.'window'
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Stephen Liu
>>




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