manpath
- determine user's search path for man pages
SYNOPSIS
[-dLq
DESCRIPTION
]
The
utility
tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system
defaults and the user's
PATH
echoing the result to the standard output.
Warnings and errors are written to the standard error.
If a directory in the user's path is not listed in the
/etc/manpath.config
file,
looks for the subdirectories
man
or
MAN
If they exist, they are added to the search path.
If they do not exist, but the directory ends in
/bin
replaces
/bin
with
/man
and checks if that directory exists.
If it exists, it is added to the search path.
The
utility is used by
man(1)
to determine the search path, so users normally do not need to set the
MANPATH
environment variable directly.
The options are as follows:
-d
Output additional debug information.
-L
Output man locales list (if it exists).
-q
Operate quietly.
Only echo the final result.
ENVIRONMENT
MANPATH
If
MANPATH
is set,
echoes its value on the standard output and issues a warning on the
standard error.
MANLOCALES
If
MANLOCALES
is set and
-L
option is set,
echoes its value on the standard output and issues a warning on the
standard error.
