2 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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6 SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
8 Copyright 2016 Lennart Poettering
12 <title>Environment
</title>
14 <variablelist class='environment-variables'
>
15 <varlistentry id='pager'
>
16 <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER
</varname></term>
18 <listitem><para>Pager to use when
<option>--no-pager
</option> is not given; overrides
19 <varname>$PAGER
</varname>. If neither
<varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER
</varname> nor
<varname>$PAGER
</varname> are set, a
20 set of well-known pager implementations are tried in turn, including
21 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>less
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
22 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>more
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, until one is found. If
23 no pager implementation is discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable to an empty string
24 or the value
<literal>cat
</literal> is equivalent to passing
<option>--no-pager
</option>.
</para></listitem>
27 <varlistentry id='less'
>
28 <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESS
</varname></term>
30 <listitem><para>Override the options passed to
<command>less
</command> (by default
31 <literal>FRSXMK
</literal>).
</para></listitem>
34 <varlistentry id='lesscharset'
>
35 <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET
</varname></term>
37 <listitem><para>Override the charset passed to
<command>less
</command> (by default
<literal>utf-
8</literal>, if
38 the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-
8 compatible).
</para></listitem>