Colored Man Pages

Éverton Arruda — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:36:32 +0000

I found an interesting tip about coloring man pages in Jônatas’ blog (http://tupinigeek.blogspot.com/2009/07/man-pages-coloridas.html <- in Portugese). This is how you do it:

1 – Install most (http://www.jedsoft.org/most/index.html):
You can download most here: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/most/
or by executing the line bellow in debian-like systems:

1	# aptitude install most

2 – Export MANPAGER variable:
After this you’ll have to execute the line bellow:

1	$ export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most -s"

Now you should have your man pages like this:

If you don’t want to export that variable everytime you restart your computer, you can add that line to your .bashrc file:

1	$ echo "export MANPAGER=\"/usr/bin/most -s\"" >> ~/.bashrc

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