manpath
—
display search path for manual pages
The manpath
utility determines the user's manual search
path from the user's PATH
, and local configuration
files. This result is echoed to the standard output.
-L
- Output manual locales list instead of the manual path.
-d
- Print extra debugging information.
-q
- Suppresses warning messages.
The manpath
utility constructs the manual path from two
sources:
- From each component of the user's
PATH
for the
first of:
- pathname/man
- pathname/MAN
- If pathname ends with /bin:
pathname/../share/man and
pathname/../man
- The configuration files listed in the
FILES section for
MANPATH entries.
The information from these locations is then concatenated together.
If the -L
flag is set, the
manpath
utility will search the configuration files
listed in the FILES section for
MANLOCALE entries.
The following environment variables affect the execution of
manpath
:
MANLOCALES
- If set with the
-L
flag, causes the utility to
display a warning and the value, overriding any other configuration found
on the system.
MANPATH
- If set, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding
any other configuration found on the system.
PATH
- Influences the manual path as described in the
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES.
- /etc/man.conf
- System configuration file.
- /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf
- Local configuration files.