topgit has an issue with that: https://github.com/greenrd/topgit/blob/master/tg.sh#L462 TG_PAGER gets defined some lines above ${FOO-xxx) means but word if FOO isn't defined (thanks to Lethalman, I failed finding that in the man page. Is the best way to fix this by dropping quotes? Does anybody know how PAGER ist most commonly used? Marc Weber