From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk>
To: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: _man only uses $manpath
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:43:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37E2377A.D65566BC@u.genie.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990917122225.B27658@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
Adam Spiers wrote:
>
> No, the GNU man displays all the man paths it will use if invoked as
> `man -w':
It seems that GNU man itself varies. The GNU man on the debian linux
system I have access to at work prints:
What manual page do you want?
in response to -w with no argument and has no -W option. Note that it
does return an exit code of 1 though so we can still use man -w if we
check the exit code.
> In the GNU case, you can just grep /etc/man.config for `^MANPATH '.
That must be specific to your linux distribution as opposed to GNU man.
> I'd rather keep guessing as a last resort. Maybe try man -w and check
> the exit code, then
> if [[ -r /etc/man.config ]]; then
That's probably the best approach as long as we don't find a system that
breaks it.
Oliver Kiddle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-17 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-17 9:45 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-17 11:22 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-17 12:43 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
1999-09-17 12:54 ` Clint Adams
1999-09-17 13:04 ` Clint Adams
1999-09-17 14:27 ` PATCH: " Oliver Kiddle
1999-09-17 14:44 ` Peter Stephenson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-17 7:23 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-17 9:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
1999-09-16 15:54 Adam Spiers
1999-09-16 16:19 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-09-16 16:21 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-16 16:26 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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