Manual Pages  — MANPATH

manpath – display search path for manual pages

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION IMPLEMENTATION NOTES ENVIRONMENT FILES SEE ALSO

manpath [-Ldq]

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.

The manpath utility constructs the manual path from two sources:

1. 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

2. 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.

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.

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