10-15-2001
Pager, not man....man
Well,
You have hit upon one of the neat parts of unix, the use of your environment variables to do things that make life easier, without you knowing. The reason man paginates your man pages is because your variable for PAGER is set. You can unset this, and the pages will FLY by you. You could also set it to whatever you like as a pager (pg, more, less, etc.), then it will use that program to paginate whatever you use as a command that has output that reads the PAGER var and paginates output.
I know this isn't exactly what you wanted, but there it is...
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NAME
puppet-man - Display Puppet manual pages.
SYNOPSIS
puppet man action
DESCRIPTION
This subcommand displays manual pages for all Puppet subcommands. If the ronn gem (https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/) is installed on your
system, puppet man will display fully-formated man pages. If ronn is not available, puppet man will display the raw (but human-readable)
source text in a pager.
OPTIONS
Note that any configuration parameter that's valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument, although it may or may not be
relevant to the present action. For example, server is a valid configuration parameter, so you can specify --server <servername> as an
argument.
See the configuration file documentation at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html for the full list of acceptable
parameters. A commented list of all configuration options can also be generated by running puppet with --genconfig.
--mode MODE
The run mode to use for the current action. Valid modes are user, agent, and master.
--render-as FORMAT
The format in which to render output. The most common formats are json, s (string), yaml, and console, but other options such as dot
are sometimes available.
--verbose
Whether to log verbosely.
--debug
Whether to log debug information.
ACTIONS
man - Display the manual page for a Puppet subcommand.
SYNOPSIS
puppet man subcommand
DESCRIPTION
Display the manual page for a Puppet subcommand.
RETURNS
The man data, in Markdown format, suitable for consumption by Ronn.
RENDERING ISSUES: To skip fancy formatting and output the raw Markdown text (e.g. for use in a pipeline), call this action with
'--render-as s'.
EXAMPLES
man
View the manual page for a subcommand:
$ puppet man facts
NOTES
The pager used for display will be the first found of $MANPAGER, $PAGER, less, most, or more.
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