It's not related to man, it's depends on your pager. You can set your pager like following:
alias man="man -P most"
Now your manual pages will be show with most
command as a pager. Now you have to use most
command options.
If you are using less
pager, following keys are useful:
g < ESC-< * Go to first line in file (or line N).
G > ESC-> * Go to last line in file (or line N).
F Forward forever; like "tail -f".
h H Display this help.
F Forward forever; like "tail -f".
/pattern * Search forward for (N-th) matching line.
?pattern * Search backward for (N-th) matching line.
n * Repeat previous search (for N-th occurrence).
N * Repeat previous search in reverse direction.
&pattern * Display only matching lines
g < ESC-< * Go to first line in file (or line N).
G > ESC-> * Go to last line in file (or line N
If you are using most
pager, following keys are useful:
SPACE, D *Scroll down one Screen.
U, DELETE *Scroll Up one screen.
RETURN, DOWN *Move Down one line.
UP *Move Up one line.
T Goto Top of File.
B Goto Bottom of file.
S, f, / *Search forward
? *Search Backward
N *Find next in current search direction
NOTE: You can read the man
page or --help
option of you arbitrary pager or pressing h
for help while using pager.