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manpath - determine search path for manual pages
manpath
[-qgdchV] [-m system[,...]] [-C file]
If $MANPATH is set, manpath
will simply display its contents and issue a warning. If not, manpath
will determine a suitable manual page hierarchy search path and display
the results.
The colon-delimited path is determined using information gained
from the man-db configuration file - (/etc/man_db.conf) and the user’s environment.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not issue warnings.
- -d, --debug
- Print debugging information.
- -c, --catpath
- Produce a catpath as opposed to a manpath. Once the manpath
is determined, each path element is converted to its relative catpath.
- -g,
--global
- Produce a manpath consisting of all paths named as ‘global’ within
the man-db configuration file.
-m system [,...], --systems=system[,...]
If
this system has access to other operating system’s manual hierarchies,
this option can be used to include them in the output of manpath. To include
NewOS’s manual page hierarchies use the option -m NewOS.
The system specified
can be a combination of comma delimited operating system names. To include
the native operating system’s manual page hierarchies, the system name
man must be included in the argument string. This option will override the
$SYSTEM environment variable.
- -C file, --config-file=file
- Use this user configuration
file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.
- -h, --help
- Print a help message
and exit.
- -V, --version
- Display version information.
- MANPATH
- If $MANPATH
is set, manpath displays its value rather than determining it on the fly.
If $MANPATH is prefixed by a colon, then the value of the variable is
appended to the list determined from the content of the configuration files.
If the colon comes at the end of the value in the variable, then the determined
list is appended to the content of the variable. If the value of the variable
contains a double colon (::), then the determined list is inserted in the
middle of the value, between the two colons.
- SYSTEM
- If $SYSTEM is set, it
will have the same effect as if it had been specified as the argument to
the -m option.
- /etc/man_db.conf
- man-db configuration file.
apropos(1)
,
man(1)
, whatis(1)
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
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