changing default (man) pager I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following: PAGER=less PS. When I do it in csh via setenv PAGER less then it works

Your


PAGER=less


sets the _shell variable_ `PAGER` to the value `less`. For `man` (or anything other than the current shell) to see this, you will have to additionally make `PAGER` an _environment variable_. You do this with `export`, either through


PAGER=less
export PAGER


or


export PAGER=less


A shell variable is "exported into the environment" with `export`. This is the same in all `sh`-like shells. Exporting a variable in this way is the corollary to the `csh`/`tcsh` `setenv` command.