manpath command attempts to determine the path to manual pages. It checks $MANPATH first; if that is not set, consult /etc/man.conf, user environment variables, and the current working directory. The manpath command is a symbolic link to man and is equivalent to ‘man –path’. Most of the options are ignored for manpath.
manpath Command 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
5. To specify which browser to use on HTML files:
# manpath -B
6. To Specify a commanpathd that renders HTML files as text:
# manpath -H
7. To List is a colon separated list of manpathual sections to search:
# manpath -S section_list
8. To display all the manpathual pages that match name:
# manpath -a
9. To Reformat the source manpath page, even when an up-to-date cat page exists:
# manpath -c
10. To don’t actually display the manpath pages, but do print gobs of debugging information:
# manpath -d
11. To display and print debugging info:
# manpath -D
12. To display in whatis format:
# manpath -f
13. Just to format and not to display:
# manpath -F # manpath --preformat
14. To print a help message and exit:
# manpath -h
15. To search for specified key in all manpath pages:
# manpath -K
16. To specify an alternate set o manpath pages:
# manpath -m system
17. To Specify the sequence of pre-processors to run before nroff or troff:
# manpath -p string
18. To use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -manpathdoc to format the manpathual page:
# manpath -t