View Colored Man Pages

[Snubbi]

I use bash and would like to have colored man pages. I have followed the instructions here: https://www.tecmint.com/view-colored-man-pages-in-linux/

I’ve tried both methods, but I can’t get any colored man pages?

[NaN]

@Snubbi

I use bash

set the following environment variables using .bashrc

export MANROFFOPT="-c"
export MANPAGER=sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'

Also ensure you have bat installed. You can check with pacman.

[Snubbi]

@NaN

set the following environment variables using .bashrc

export MANROFFOPT="-c"
export MANPAGER=sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'

Also ensure you have bat installed. You can check with pacman.

clear

It gave the following error:

─λ nano ~/.bashrc

╭─carl@andersen in ~ took 21s
╰─λ source ~/.bashrc
bash: export: “-c”: not a valid identification name
bash: export: “col -bx | bat -l man -p”: not a valid identification name

╭─carl@andersen in ~ took 5ms
[] × man df
sh: linje 2: syntaksfejl nær uventet udtryk “1”
sh: linje 2: `DF(1) Brugerkommandoer DF(1)’
man: the command completed with status 2: sed -e ‘/^[1]$/{ N; /^[2]\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }’ | LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page df(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s…?e (END):?pB %pB%… (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page df(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s…?e (END):?pB %pB%… (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=df(1) sh
and bat was installed

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[NaN]

my bad forgot the quotes,

@NaN

export MANPAGER=sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'

change this to ,

export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'"

notice the quotes.