Just after I was done writing Managing PATH and MANPATH, I stumbled on “man man” and put to rest the mysteries of MANPATH. How it works If MANPATH is defined, it will be used to lookup man pages. If MANPATH is NOT defined, the manpath config file is going to be used. Depending on the [...]
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How MANPATH works
Posted in development on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Managing PATH and MANPATH
Posted in cli on September 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
PATH My PATH variable used to be a mess. I have used UNIX-like systems for 10 years and have carried around my configuration files in one form or another since then. Think about Solaris, think about /opt (or /sw), and change the order based on different requirements. I have seen a lot of people devise [...]
