NAME

manpath —

display search path for manual pages

SYNOPSIS

manpath [-Ldq]

DESCRIPTION

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.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

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.

ENVIRONMENT

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.

FILES

/etc/man.conf: System configuration file.
/usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf: Local configuration files.