Environment$SYSTEMD_PAGERPager to use when is not given; overrides
$PAGER. If neither $SYSTEMD_PAGER nor $PAGER are set, a
set of well-known pager implementations are tried in turn, including
less1 and
more1, until one is found. If
no pager implementation is discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable to an empty string
or the value cat is equivalent to passing .$SYSTEMD_LESSOverride the options passed to less (by default
FRSXMK).Users might want to change two options in particular:This option instructs the pager to exit immediately when
CtrlC is pressed. To allow
less to handle CtrlC
itself to switch back to the pager command prompt, unset this option.If the value of $SYSTEMD_LESS does not include K,
and the pager that is invoked is less,
CtrlC will be ignored by the
executable, and needs to be handled by the pager.This option instructs the pager to not send termcap initialization and deinitialization
strings to the terminal. It is set by default to allow command output to remain visible in the
terminal even after the pager exits. Nevertheless, this prevents some pager functionality from
working, in particular paged output cannot be scrolled with the mouse.See
less1
for more discussion.$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSETOverride the charset passed to less (by default utf-8, if
the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).