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manpath(1) — Linux manual page

MANPATH(1) Manual pager utils MANPATH(1)

NAME top

 manpath - determine search path for manual pages

SYNOPSIS top

 manpath [-qgdc?V] [-m system[,...]] [-C file]

DESCRIPTION top

 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 – (/usr/local/etc/man_db.conf)
 and the user's environment.

OPTIONS top

 -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 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
 ~/.manpath.
 -?, --help
 Print a help message and exit.
 --usage
 Print a short usage message and exit.
 -V, --version
 Display version information.

ENVIRONMENT top

 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 top

 /usr/local/etc/man_db.conf
 man-db configuration file.

SEE ALSO top

 apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

AUTHOR top

 Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
 Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
 Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

BUGS top

 https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
 https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

COLOPHON top

 This page is part of the man-db (manual pager suite) project.
 Information about the project can be found at 
 ⟨http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
 manual page, send it to man-db-devel@nongnu.org. This page was
 obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
 ⟨https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db⟩ on 2025年02月02日. (At that
 time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
 repository was 2025年01月24日.) If you discover any rendering
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2.13.0 2024年08月29日 MANPATH(1)

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