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.\" Man page for manpath
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, John W. Eaton.
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.\"
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.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
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.\" License as specified in the README file that comes with the man 1.0
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.\" distribution.
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.\"
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.\" John W. Eaton
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.\" jwe@che.utexas.edu
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.\" Department of Chemical Engineering
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.\" The University of Texas at Austin
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.\" Austin, Texas 78712
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.\"
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.Dd Jan 5, 1991
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.Dt MANPATH 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm manpath
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.Nd determine user's search path for man pages
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl q
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm manpath
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tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system
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defaults and the user's
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.Ev PATH ,
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echoing the result to the standard output. Warnings and errors are
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written to the standard error.
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If a directory in the user's path is not listed in the manpath.config
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file, manpath looks for the subdirectories man or MAN. If they exist,
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they are added to the search path.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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manpath
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is used by
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.Nm man
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to determine the search path, so user's normally don't need to set the
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.Ev MANPATH
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environment variable directly.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl q
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Operate quietly. Only echo the final manpath.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width MANPATH -compact
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.It Ev MANPATH
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If
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.Ev MANPATH
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is set,
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.Nm manpath
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echoes its value on the standard output and issues a warning on the
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standard error.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width %manpath_config_file% -compact
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.It Pa %manpath_config_file%
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System configuration file.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1 ,
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.Xr man 1
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.Sh BUGS
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None known.
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