diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
index 6e5d26dd168..d367f4eb106 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
@@ -4126,16 +4126,7 @@ internal static string GetExecFunctionText()
         }
 #endif
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// This is the default function to use for man/help. It uses
-        /// splatting to pass in the parameters.
-        /// </summary>
-        internal static string GetHelpPagingFunctionText()
-        {
-            // We used to generate the text for this function so you could add a parameter
-            // to Get-Help and not worry about adding it here.  That was a little slow at
-            // startup, so it's hard coded, with a test to make sure the parameters match.
-            return @"
+        internal const string WindowsHelpFunctionText = @"
 <#
 .FORWARDHELPTARGETNAME Get-Help
 .FORWARDHELPCATEGORY Cmdlet
@@ -4209,14 +4200,132 @@ .FORWARDHELPCATEGORY Cmdlet
     elseif ($help -ne $null)
     {
         # By default use more on Windows and less on Linux.
-        if ($IsWindows) {
-            $pagerCommand = 'more.com'
-            $pagerArgs = $null
+        $pagerCommand = 'more.com'
+        $pagerArgs = $null
+
+        # Respect PAGER environment variable which allows user to specify a custom pager.
+        # Ignore a pure whitespace PAGER value as that would cause the tokenizer to return 0 tokens.
+        if (![string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($env:PAGER)) {
+            if (Get-Command $env:PAGER -ErrorAction Ignore) {
+                # Entire PAGER value corresponds to a single command.
+                $pagerCommand = $env:PAGER
+                $pagerArgs = $null
+            }
+            else {
+                # PAGER value is not a valid command, check if PAGER command and arguments have been specified.
+                # Tokenize the specified $env:PAGER value. Ignore tokenizing errors since any errors may be valid
+                # argument syntax for the paging utility.
+                $errs = $null
+                $tokens = [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]::Tokenize($env:PAGER, [ref]$errs)
+
+                $customPagerCommand = $tokens[0].Content
+                if (!(Get-Command $customPagerCommand -ErrorAction Ignore)) {
+                    # Custom pager command is invalid, issue a warning.
+                    Write-Warning ""Custom-paging utility command not found. Ignoring command specified in `$env:PAGER: $env:PAGER""
+                }
+                else {
+                    # This approach will preserve all the pagers args.
+                    $pagerCommand = $customPagerCommand
+                    $pagerArgs = if ($tokens.Count -gt 1) {
+                        $env:PAGER.Substring($tokens[1].Start)
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        $null
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        $pagerCommandInfo = Get-Command -Name $pagerCommand -ErrorAction Ignore
+        if ($pagerCommandInfo -eq $null) {
+            $help
+        }
+        elseif ($pagerCommandInfo.CommandType -eq 'Application') {
+            # If the pager is an application, format the output width before sending to the app.
+            $consoleWidth = [System.Math]::Max([System.Console]::WindowWidth, 20)
+
+            if ($pagerArgs) {
+                $help | Out-String -Stream -Width ($consoleWidth - 1) | & $pagerCommand $pagerArgs
+            }
+            else {
+                $help | Out-String -Stream -Width ($consoleWidth - 1) | & $pagerCommand
+            }
         }
         else {
-            $pagerCommand = 'less'
-            $pagerArgs = '-s','-P','Page %db?B of %D:.\. Press h for help or q to quit\.'
+            # The pager command is a PowerShell function, script or alias, so pipe directly into it.
+            $help | & $pagerCommand $pagerArgs
         }
+    }
+";
+
+        internal const string UnixHelpFunctionText = @"
+<#
+.FORWARDHELPTARGETNAME Get-Help
+.FORWARDHELPCATEGORY Cmdlet
+#>
+[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='AllUsersView', HelpUri='https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113316')]
+param(
+    [Parameter(Position=0, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]
+    [string]
+    ${Name},
+
+    [string]
+    ${Path},
+
+    [ValidateSet('Alias','Cmdlet','Provider','General','FAQ','Glossary','HelpFile','ScriptCommand','Function','Filter','ExternalScript','All','DefaultHelp','DscResource','Class','Configuration')]
+    [string[]]
+    ${Category},
+
+    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='DetailedView', Mandatory=$true)]
+    [switch]
+    ${Detailed},
+
+    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='AllUsersView')]
+    [switch]
+    ${Full},
+
+    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Examples', Mandatory=$true)]
+    [switch]
+    ${Examples},
+
+    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Parameters', Mandatory=$true)]
+    [string[]]
+    ${Parameter},
+
+    [string[]]
+    ${Component},
+
+    [string[]]
+    ${Functionality},
+
+    [string[]]
+    ${Role},
+
+    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Online', Mandatory=$true)]
+    [switch]
+    ${Online})
+
+    # Display the full help topic by default but only for the AllUsersView parameter set.
+    if (($psCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'AllUsersView') -and !$Full) {
+        $PSBoundParameters['Full'] = $true
+    }
+
+    # Linux need the default
+    $OutputEncoding = [System.Console]::OutputEncoding
+
+    $help = Get-Help @PSBoundParameters
+
+    # If a list of help is returned or AliasHelpInfo (because it is small), don't pipe to more
+    $psTypeNames = ($help | Select-Object -First 1).PSTypeNames
+    if ($psTypeNames -Contains 'HelpInfoShort' -Or $psTypeNames -Contains 'AliasHelpInfo')
+    {
+        $help
+    }
+    elseif ($help -ne $null)
+    {
+        # By default use more on Windows and less on Linux.
+        $pagerCommand = 'less'
+        $pagerArgs = '-s','-P','Page %db?B of %D:.\. Press h for help or q to quit\.'
 
         # Respect PAGER environment variable which allows user to specify a custom pager.
         # Ignore a pure whitespace PAGER value as that would cause the tokenizer to return 0 tokens.
@@ -4267,8 +4376,31 @@ .FORWARDHELPCATEGORY Cmdlet
         }
     }
 ";
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This is the default function to use for man/help. It uses
+        /// splatting to pass in the parameters.
+        /// </summary>
+#if !UNIX
+        internal static string GetHelpPagingFunctionText()
+        {
+            // We used to generate the text for this function so you could add a parameter
+            // to Get-Help and not worry about adding it here.  That was a little slow at
+            // startup, so it's hard coded, with a test to make sure the parameters match.
+            return WindowsHelpFunctionText;
         }
 
+#else
+        internal static string GetHelpPagingFunctionText()
+        {
+            // We used to generate the text for this function so you could add a parameter
+            // to Get-Help and not worry about adding it here.  That was a little slow at
+            // startup, so it's hard coded, with a test to make sure the parameters match.
+            // This version removes the -ShowWindow parameter since it is not supported on Linux.
+            return UnixHelpFunctionText;
+        }
+#endif
+
         internal static string GetMkdirFunctionText()
         {
             return @"