- About manpath : To format and display the on-line manual pages
- It comes from “man-1.6” package.
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/manpath
Examples:
1. To see the manual for a command
| $ manpath command $ manpath ls |
2. To Specify the configuration file to use; the default is /etc/manpath.config
| $ manpath -C config_file |
3. To Specify the list of directories to search for man pages
| $ manpath -M path |
4. To Specify which pager to use
| $ manpath -P pager |
6. To specify which browser to use on HTML files
| $ manpath -B |
7. To Specify a commanpathd that renders HTML files as text
| $ manpath -H |
8. To List is a colon separated list of manpathual sections to search.
| $ manpath -S section_list |
9. To display all the manpathual pages that match name
| $ manpath -a |
10. To Reformat the source manpath page, even when an up-to-date cat page exists
| $ manpath -c |
11. To don’t actually display the manpath pages, but do print gobs of debugging information
| $ manpath -d |
12. To display and print debugging info
| $ manpath -D |
13. To display in whatis format
| $ manpath -f |
14. Just to format and not to display
| $ manpath -F $ manpath –preformat |
15. To print a help message and exit
| $ manpath -h |
16. To search for specified key in all manpath pages
| $ manpath -K |
17. To specify an alternate set o manpath pages
| $ manpath -m system |
18. To Specify the sequence of pre-processors to run before nroff or troff
| $ manpath -p string |
19. To use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -manpathdoc to format the manpathual page
| $ manpath -t |
