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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2017-03-18 19:51:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2017-03-18 19:51:19 +0000 |
| commit | 594c9866f903baae07fbafd0853149436fd06a11 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c23cfca91398ae655fd2e41b770e10368b4458a /apropos.1 | |
| parent | c0fb3f2307fc80d2d85cc1ab16c3fd262bba49a6 (diff) | |
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Correct description of MANPATH, and a few more improvements
to the ENVIRONMENT section; OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'apropos.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | apropos.1 | 43 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.41 2017/03/17 17:24:41 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.42 2017/03/18 19:51:19 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 18 2017 $ .Dt APROPOS 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -362,25 +362,25 @@ Text production: .It Ev MANPAGER Any non-empty value of the environment variable .Ev MANPAGER -will be used instead of the standard pagination program, -.Xr more 1 . +is used instead of the standard pagination program, +.Xr more 1 ; +see +.Xr man 1 +for details. +Only used if +.Fl a +or +.Fl l +is specified. .It Ev MANPATH -The standard search path used by +A colon-separated list of directories to search for manual pages; see .Xr man 1 -may be changed by specifying a path in the -.Ev MANPATH -environment variable. -Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored. +for details. Overridden by -.Fl M . -If -.Ev MANPATH -begins with a colon, it is appended to the default list; -if it ends with a colon, it is prepended to the default list; -or if it contains two adjacent colons, -the standard search path is inserted between the colons. -If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the -standard search path. +.Fl M , +ignored if +.Fl l +is specified. .It Ev PAGER Specifies the pagination program to use when .Ev MANPAGER @@ -388,7 +388,12 @@ is not defined. If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, .Xr more 1 .Fl s -will be used. +is used. +Only used if +.Fl a +or +.Fl l +is specified. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact |