1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Gordon Tetlow 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd September 1, 2010 29.Dt MANPATH 1 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm manpath 33.Nd display search path for manual pages 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl Ldq 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility determines the user's manual search path from 41the user's 42.Ev PATH , 43and local configuration files. 44This result is echoed to the standard output. 45.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d" 46.It Fl L 47Output manual locales list instead of the manual path. 48.It Fl d 49Print extra debugging information. 50.It Fl q 51Suppresses warning messages. 52.El 53.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 54The 55.Nm 56utility constructs the manual path from two sources: 57.Bl -enum -compact 58.It 59From each component of the user's 60.Ev PATH 61for the first of: 62.Bl -dash -compact 63.It 64.Pa pathname/man 65.It 66.Pa pathname/MAN 67.It 68If pathname ends with /bin: 69.Pa pathname/../man 70.El 71Note: Special logic exists to make 72.Pa /bin 73and 74.Pa /usr/bin 75look in 76.Pa /usr/share/man 77for manual files. 78.It 79The configuration files listed in the 80.Sx FILES 81section for 82.Va MANPATH 83entries. 84.El 85The information from these locations is then concatenated together. 86.Pp 87If the 88.Fl L 89flag is set, the 90.Nm 91utility will search the configuration files listed in the 92.Sx FILES 93section for 94.Va MANLOCALE 95entries. 96.Sh ENVIRONMENT 97The following environment variables affect the execution of 98.Nm : 99.Bl -tag -width ".Ev MANLOCALES" 100.It Ev MANLOCALES 101If set with the 102.Fl L 103flag, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding any 104other configuration found on the system. 105.It Ev MANPATH 106If set, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding 107any other configuration found on the system. 108.It Ev PATH 109Influences the manual path as described in the 110.Sx IMPLEMENTATION NOTES . 111.El 112.Sh FILES 113.Bl -tag -width indent -compact 114.It Pa /etc/man.conf 115System configuration file. 116.It Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf 117Local configuration files. 118.El 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr apropos 1 , 121.Xr man 1 , 122.Xr whatis 1 , 123.Xr man.conf 5 124