GMANPATH(1)                   Manual pager utils                   GMANPATH(1)

NAME
       gmanpath - determine search path for manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       gmanpath [-qgdc?V] [-m system[,...]] [-C file]

DESCRIPTION
       If $MANPATH is set, gmanpath will simply display its contents and issue
       a warning.  If not, gmanpath 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 – (/opt/homebrew/etc/man_db.conf) and the
       user's environment.

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
              Do not issue warnings.

       -d, --debug
              Print debugging information.

       -c, --catpath
              Produce a catpath as opposed to a manpath.  Once the manpath is
              determined, each path element is converted to its relative
              catpath.

       -g, --global
              Produce a manpath consisting of all paths named as "global"
              within the man-db configuration file.

       -m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
              If this system has access to other operating systems' manual
              hierarchies, this option can be used to include them in the
              output of gmanpath.  To include NewOS's manual page hierarchies
              use the option -m NewOS.

              The 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 man must be
              included in the argument string.  This option will override the
              $SYSTEM environment variable.

       -C file, --config-file=file
              Use this user configuration file rather than the default of
              ~/.manpath.

       -?, --help
              Print a help message and exit.

       --usage
              Print a short usage message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information.

ENVIRONMENT
       MANPATH
              If $MANPATH is set, gmanpath displays its value rather than
              determining it on the fly.

              See the SEARCH PATH section of manpath(5) for the default
              behaviour and details of how this environment variable is
              handled.

       SYSTEM If $SYSTEM is set, it will have the same effect as if it had
              been specified as the argument to the -m option.

FILES
       /opt/homebrew/etc/man_db.conf
                                    man-db configuration file.

SEE ALSO
       gapropos(1), gman(1), gwhatis(1)

AUTHOR
       Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

BUGS
       https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

2.13.0                            2024-08-29                       GMANPATH(1)