manpath
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT FILES SEE ALSO AUTHOR
manpath - determine search path for manual pages
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/manpath.config) and the user's environment.
-q, --quiet
Do not issue warnings.
-d, --debug
Produce 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.
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version and author 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/manpath.config
System configuration file.
apropos(1), whatis(1), man(1).
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
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