garbled man output

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:42:16PM +0100, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > On my busybox 1.25.1 setup, 'man' and 'less' are conspiring to mangle
> > terminal control commands, like this for 'PAGER=less man bash':
> 
> Does this help?
> 
>   PAGER='less -R' man bash
>

Yes, this works for less == GNU less, but busybox less doesn't support -R.

-mg
 
> Or this one?
> 
>   export LESS=-R
>   PAGER=less man bash
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Xabier Oneca_,,_