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azernik on Oct 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 12 Factor CLI Apps

'man' has no regex functionality; on most Unix systems, it just uses 'less' as its pager.

pdpi on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

sure, which means that it inherits regex support via less. You either have it on both, or neither.

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