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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Emulate ksh's FPATH variable in bash Post 302451613 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 11:32:57 AM
Old 09-07-2010
Try this bash hack to get FPATH:
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/functions/autoload
 

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DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)						      Debian							DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)

NAME
dwww-build-menu - builds dwww Debian Documentation Menu SYNOPSIS
dwww-build-menu DESCRIPTION
dwww-build-menu is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. dwww-build-menu generates the Debian Documentation Menu pages (available on http://localhost/dwww/menu/), from files registered with doc-base program, found in the /var/lib/doc-base/documents The generated pages are stored in DWWW_DOCROOTDIR/dwww/menu directory. (Default is /var/www/dwww/menu.) FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf Configuration file for dwww. /var/www/dwww/menu Default directory for generated menu pages. /var/lib/dwww Temporary directory used while generating the pages. SEE ALSO
dwww(7), dwww-build(8), install-docs(8), Debian doc-base Manual in /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html. AUTHOR
Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>. See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff. dwww 1.11.1 February 15th, 2009 DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)
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