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MANPATH
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NAME
manpath - determine search path for manual pages
SYNOPSIS
manpath
[ -qgdc?V]
[ -m
system[,...]]
[ -C
file]
DESCRIPTION
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 colo-delimited path is determined using information gained from the
ma-db configuration file -
(/etc/man_db.conf)
and the user's environment.
OPTIONS
- -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
ma-db configuration file.
- -m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
-
If this system has access to other operating systems' 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
ti/.manpath.
- -?, --help
-
Print a help message and exit.
- --usage
-
Print a short usage message and exit.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information.
ENVIRONMENT
- MANPATH
-
If
$MANPATH
is set,
manpath
displays its value rather than determining it on the fly.
See the
SEARCH PATH
section of
manpath(5)
for the default behaviour and details of how this environment variable is
handled.
- SYSTEM
-
If
$SYSTEM
is set, it will have the same effect as if it had been specified as the
argument to the
-m
option.
FILES
- /etc/man_db.conf
-
ma-db configuration file.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1),
man(1),
whatis(1)
AUTHOR
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
BUGS
https://gitlab.com/ma-db/ma-db/-/issues
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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- BUGS
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