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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers manpath errors -- standard way to set? does anyone even use it anymore? Post 302397964 by jzacsh on Tuesday 23rd of February 2010 12:12:32 PM
Old 02-23-2010
Question manpath errors -- standard way to set? does anyone even use it anymore?
Hello I'm finding a lot of results come up in google about manpath but none of them seem to help. I would like to add some files to my man path so that I can type things like `man -k fluxbox` and even though I don't have fluxbox installed at all, man will find that I have some personal notes on fluxbox. I'd also like to be able to type `man 7 fluxbox` because you can see here that 7 is a section for "miscellanea" (personal documentation).

After putting the following in my ~/.bashrc, I would type `manpath` and it would reveal no sign of my desired path:

Code:
MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/new/path/

So, then I tried:

Code:
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/new/path

but now I get the following when typing `manpath`:
Code:
$ manpath
manpath: warning: $MANPATH set, prepending /etc/manpath.config
/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/home/me/public/man:/home/me/public/man

(i don't know why my desired path is repeated twice, but I also don't know whatto do about the warning manpath gave me)

See my directory of documents/pages below; I believe I have it set up correctly -- however, I'm hoping someone can tell me:
  • "no, everything has to be plain text" --OR--
  • "no you can leave those PDF/html files there and man will do its best"

Code:
$pwd
/home/me/

$ ls -a public/man/
.
..
man7

$ ls -a public/man/man7/
.
..
apt-get_cli-tool.html
auto-mount-partition.pdf
bookmark_me
cron_unix-geeks.html
fhs_wikipedia.html
file-system-hierarchy_standard-v2.3.html
file_sysytem_hierarchy
fluxbox_keys.html
intro-to-git.pdf
linux-permissions.html
LowMemorySystems.html
mutt_mail_scripts.html
ports_iana
redirect_std_output-error.html
setup_postfix
unix_haters.pdf
vim_advanced.html
vimrc_sample.html

 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

manpath

MANPATH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						MANPATH(1)

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:
     1.   From each component of the user's PATH for the first of:
	  -   pathname/man
	  -   pathname/MAN
	  -   If pathname ends with /bin: pathname/../man
	  Note: Special logic exists to make /bin and /usr/bin look in /usr/share/man for manual files.
     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.

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.

SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), man.conf(5)

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