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21 .Nd determine user's search path for man pages
27 tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system
28 defaults and the user's
30 echoing the result to the standard output.
31 Warnings and errors are written to the standard error.
32 If a directory in the user's path is not listed in the
33 .Pa /etc/manpath.config
36 looks for the subdirectories
40 If they exist, they are added to the search path.
41 If they do not exist, but the directory ends in
48 and checks if that directory exists.
49 If it exists, it is added to the search path.
54 to determine the search path, so users normally don't need to set the
56 environment variable directly.
58 The options are as follows:
61 Output additional debug information.
63 Output man locales list (if exist).
66 Only echo the final result.
69 .Bl -tag -width MANLOCALES -compact
75 echoes its value on the standard output and issues a warning on the
84 echoes its value on the standard output and issues a warning on the
88 .Bl -tag -width /etc/manpath.config -compact
89 .It Pa /etc/manpath.config
90 System configuration file.