On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote:
> man command | cat
> 
> where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to
> the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I
> hope),

Put this in your .bashrc or .profile:

export PAGER=/bin/cat

Now paging programs like man will dump output direct to the terminal.

Of course, there are plenty of ways to view man in HTML now. I find most
distributions, Ubuntu included, publish their man pages online in an easily
searchable format:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

Regards,
Tyler

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