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MANPATH(1)                               Manual pager utils                               MANPATH(1)



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 colon-delimited path is determined using information gained from the man-db configuration
       file – (/etc/manpath.config) 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 man-db configu‐
              ration 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 envi‐
              ronment 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
       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 ar‐
              gument to the -m option.

FILES
       /etc/manpath.config  man-db configuration file.

SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

AUTHOR
       Wilf. (G.Wilford AT ee.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco AT debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson AT debian.org).

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



2.10.2                                       2022-03-17                                   MANPATH(1)