Manual: manpath

MANPATH(1)					     Manual pager utils						  MANPATH(1)

NAME
       manpath - determine search path for manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       manpath [-qgdc?V] [-m system[,...]] [-C file]

DESCRIPTION
       If  $MANPATH  is set, manpath will simply display its contents and issue a warning.  If not, manpath will determine a
       suitable manual page hierarchy search path and display the results.

       The colon-delimited path is determined using information gained from  the  man-db  configuration	 file  –  (/etc/man‐
       path.config) and the user's environment.

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
	      Do not issue warnings.

       -d, --debug
	      Print debugging information.

       -c, --catpath
	      Produce  a catpath as opposed to a manpath.  Once the manpath is determined, each path element is converted to
	      its relative catpath.

       -g, --global
	      Produce a manpath consisting of all paths named as "global" within the man-db configuration file.

       -m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
	      If this system has access to other operating systems' manual hierarchies, this option can be used	 to  include
	      them in the output of manpath.  To include NewOS's manual page hierarchies use the option -m NewOS.

	      The  system  specified  can be a combination of comma delimited operating system names.  To include the native
	      operating system's manual page hierarchies, the system name man must be included in the argument string.	This
	      option will override the $SYSTEM environment variable.

       -C file, --config-file=file
	      Use this user configuration file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.

       -?, --help
	      Print a help message and exit.

       --usage
	      Print a short usage message and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information.

ENVIRONMENT
       MANPATH
	      If $MANPATH is set, manpath displays its value rather than determining it on the fly.

	      See the SEARCH PATH section of manpath(5) for the default behaviour and details of how this environment  vari‐
	      able is handled.

       SYSTEM If $SYSTEM is set, it will have the same effect as if it had been specified as the argument to the -m option.

FILES
       /etc/manpath.config  man-db configuration file.

SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

AUTHOR
       Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

BUGS
       https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

2.13.1							 2025-05-02						  MANPATH(1)