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.Dd March 11, 2017 27.Dt MANPATH 1 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm manpath 31.Nd display search path for manual pages 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Nm 34.Op Fl Ldq 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The 37.Nm 38utility determines the user's manual search path from 39the user's 40.Ev PATH , 41and local configuration files. 42This result is echoed to the standard output. 43.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d" 44.It Fl L 45Output manual locales list instead of the manual path. 46.It Fl d 47Print extra debugging information. 48.It Fl q 49Suppresses warning messages. 50.El 51.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 52The 53.Nm 54utility constructs the manual path from two sources: 55.Bl -enum -compact 56.It 57From each component of the user's 58.Ev PATH 59for the first of: 60.Bl -dash -compact 61.It 62.Pa pathname/man 63.It 64.Pa pathname/MAN 65.It 66If pathname ends with /bin: 67.Pa pathname/../share/man 68and 69.Pa pathname/../man 70.El 71.It 72The configuration files listed in the 73.Sx FILES 74section for 75.Va MANPATH 76entries. 77.El 78The information from these locations is then concatenated together. 79.Pp 80If the 81.Fl L 82flag is set, the 83.Nm 84utility will search the configuration files listed in the 85.Sx FILES 86section for 87.Va MANLOCALE 88entries. 89.Sh ENVIRONMENT 90The following environment variables affect the execution of 91.Nm : 92.Bl -tag -width ".Ev MANLOCALES" 93.It Ev MANLOCALES 94If set with the 95.Fl L 96flag, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding any 97other configuration found on the system. 98.It Ev MANPATH 99If set, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding 100any other configuration found on the system. 101.It Ev PATH 102Influences the manual path as described in the 103.Sx IMPLEMENTATION NOTES . 104.El 105.Sh FILES 106.Bl -tag -width indent -compact 107.It Pa /etc/man.conf 108System configuration file. 109.It Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf 110Local configuration files. 111.El 112.Sh SEE ALSO 113.Xr apropos 1 , 114.Xr man 1 , 115.Xr whatis 1 , 116.Xr man.conf 5 117