Case insensitive search in AIX man ?

vilius · December 30, 2010, 5:24am

Hello,

Linux man command search is case insensitive by default, but not AIX man.

How do I serch case insensitive while using AIX manual pages ?

thanks
Vilius

allanwang77 · December 30, 2010, 8:28am

No way, I think.

zxmaus · December 30, 2010, 7:43pm

maybe I dont understand your question correctly but I dont think I have ever seen an uppercase command in AIX ?
regards
zxmaus

frank_rizzo · December 30, 2010, 7:49pm

export MORE=-i
man blah

allanwang77 · December 30, 2010, 9:10pm

But it looks like not work:

-bash-3.00$ export MORE=-i
-bash-3.00$ man Last
Manual entry for Last not found or not installed.
-bash-3.00$ last
coolryx1 pts/45 211.155.226.119 Dec 31 10:04 still logged in.
allanwan pts/43 99.245.35.45 Dec 31 10:04 still logged in.

What is the problem?

frank_rizzo · December 30, 2010, 9:12pm

I misunderstood the problem. I thought you were doing the vi search operator / within the man page. Last is not a command but last is. commands are case sensitive in UNIX so no - it will not work the way you are using it.

allanwang77 · December 30, 2010, 9:27pm

Yes, very good and interesting method!

-bash-3.00$ man last

                           Commands Reference, Volume 3, i - m

last Command
/Day

...
Thanks for your experience!

vilius · December 31, 2010, 2:03am

Hello,

My question was about "/" search operator case sensitivity and "export MORE=-i" solves that.

thanks
Vilius