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diff --git a/man/man1/manpath.man1 b/man/man1/manpath.man1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b9b840 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/manpath.man1 @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +.\" Man page for manpath +.\" +.\" Copyright (C), 1995, Graeme W. Wilford. (Wilf.) +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the COPYING file that comes with the +.\" man-db distribution. +.\" +.\" Sun Jan 22 22:15:17 GMT 1995 Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) +.\" +.pc +.TH %thmanpath% 1 "%date%" "%version%" "Manual pager utils" +.SH NAME +%manpath% \- determine search path for manual pages +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B %manpath% +.RB [\| \-qgdc?V \|] +.RB [\| \-m +.IR system \|[\|,.\|.\|.\|]\|] +.RB [\| \-C +.IR file \|] +.SH DESCRIPTION +If +.RB $ MANPATH +is set, +.B %manpath% +will simply display its contents and issue a warning. +If not, +.B %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 - +.RI ( "%manpath_config_file%" ) +and the user's environment. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-q ", " \-\-quiet +Do not issue warnings. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-d ", " \-\-debug +Print debugging information. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-c ", " \-\-catpath +Produce a catpath as opposed to a manpath. +Once the manpath is determined, +each path element is converted to its relative catpath. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-g ", " \-\-global +Produce a manpath consisting of all paths named as `global' within the +man-db configuration file. +.\" +.\" Due to the rather silly limit of 6 args per request in some `native' +.\" *roff compilers, we have do the following to get the two-line +.\" hanging tag on one line. .PP to begin a new paragraph, then the +.\" tag, then .RS (start relative indent), the text, finally .RE +.\" (end relative indent). +.\" +.PP +.B \-m +.I system\c +\|[\|,.\|.\|.\|]\|, +.BI \-\-systems= system\c +\|[\|,.\|.\|.\|] +.RS +If this system has access to other operating system's manual hierarchies, +this option can be used to include them in the output of +.BR %manpath% . +To include NewOS's manual page hierarchies use the option +.B \-m +.BR NewOS . + +The +.I 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 +.B man +must be included in the argument string. +This option will override the +.RB $ SYSTEM +environment variable. +.RE +.TP +.BI \-C\ file \fR,\ \fB\-\-config\-file= file +Use this user configuration file rather than the default of +.IR ~/.manpath . +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-? ", " \-\-help +Print a help message and exit. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-\-usage +Print a short usage message and exit. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-V ", " \-\-version +Display version information. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B MANPATH +If +.RB $ MANPATH +is set, +.B %manpath% +displays its value rather than determining it on the fly. +If +.RB $ MANPATH +is prefixed by a colon, then the value of the variable is appended +to the list determined from the content of the configuration files. +If the colon comes at the end of the value in the variable, then the +determined list is appended to the content of the variable. +If the value of the variable contains a double colon +.RB ( :: ), +then the determined list is inserted in the middle of the value, between +the two colons. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B SYSTEM +If +.RB $ SYSTEM +is set, it will have the same effect as if it had been specified as the +argument to the +.B \-m +option. +.SH FILES +.TP \w'%manpath_config_file%'u+2n +.if !'po4a'hide' .I %manpath_config_file% +man-db configuration file. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR %apropos% (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR %man% (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR %whatis% (1) +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). +.if !'po4a'hide' Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org). +.if !'po4a'hide' Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). +.fi |