260 lines
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260 lines
7.6 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: man.conf.5,v 1.15 2002/09/30 10:32:16 grant Exp $
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.\" @(#)man.conf.5 8.5 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
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.\"
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.Dd June 26, 2001
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.Dt MAN.CONF 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm man.conf
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.Nd configuration file for
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.Xr man 1
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Xr man 1 ,
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1
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and
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.Xr makewhatis 8
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commands
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search for manual pages or their database files as specified by the
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.Nm
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file.
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Manual pages are normally expected to be preformatted (see
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.Xr nroff 1 )
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and named with a trailing
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.Dq \.0 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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file contains two types of lines.
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.Pp
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The first type of line is a
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.Dq section
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line, which contains a
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section name followed by one or more directory paths.
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The directory paths may contain the normal shell globbing characters,
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including curly braces
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.Pq Dq {} ;
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to escape a shell globbing character,
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precede it with a backslash
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.Pq Dq \e .
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Lines in this format specify that manual pages for the section
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may be found in the following directories.
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.Pp
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Section lines may contain either absolute directory paths or relative
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directory paths (but not both).
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Relative directory paths are treated
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as a list of subdirectories to append to the current directory search
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path.
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Section lines with absolute directory paths (starting with
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.Dq / )
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completely replace the current directory search path with their
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content.
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Absolute directory paths named with a trailing slash
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character are expected to contain subdirectories of manual pages, (see
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the keyword
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.Dq _subdir
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below) instead of man pages.
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These
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subdirectories are searched instead of the directory.
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.Pp
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Before searching any directory for a manual page, the
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.Xr man 1
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command always searches the subdirectory with the same name
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as the current machine type, if it exists.
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No specification of these subdirectories is necessary in the
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.Nm
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file.
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.Pp
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Section names are unrestricted except for the reserved words specified
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below; in general, you should avoid anything with a leading underscore
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.Pq Dq _
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to avoid future incompatibilities.
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.Pp
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The section named
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.Dq _default
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is the list of directories that will
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be searched if no section is specified by the user.
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.Pp
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The second type of line is preceded with a
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.Dq keyword .
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The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width "_version"
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.It _build
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Man file names, regardless of their format, are expected to end in
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a
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.Dq \.*
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pattern, i.e. a
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.Dq \&\.
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followed by some suffix.
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The first field of a _build line lists a suffix which indicates
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files which need to be reformatted or manipulated in some way before
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being displayed to the user.
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The suffix may contain the normal shell globbing characters (NOT
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including curly braces
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.Pq Dq {} ) .
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The rest of the line must be a shell command line, the standard
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output of which is the manual page in a format which may be directly
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displayed to the user.
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Any occurrences of the string
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.Dq %s
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in the shell command line will
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be replaced by the name of the file which is being reformatted.
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.It _crunch
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The
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.Dq _crunch
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section is used by catman to know how to crunch cat pages
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which originally were compressed man pages: The first field lists a suffix
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which indicates what kind of compression were used to compress the man page.
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The rest of the line must be a shell command line, used to compress the
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formatted pages.
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.It _subdir
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The list (in search order) of subdirectories which will be searched in
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any directory named with a trailing slash
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.Pq Dq /
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character.
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This list is also used when a path is specified to the
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.Xr man 1
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utility by the user, using the
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.Ev MANPATH
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environment variable or the
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.Fl M
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and
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.Fl m
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options.
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.It _suffix
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Man file names, regardless of their format are expected to end in
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a
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.Dq \.*
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pattern, i.e. a
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.Dq \&\.
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followed by some suffix.
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Each field of a _suffix line is a suffix which indicates
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files which do not need to be reformatted or manipulated
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in any way, but which may be directly displayed to the user.
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Each suffix may contain the normal shell globbing characters (NOT
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including curly braces
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.Pq Dq {} ) .
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.It _version
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The version of the configuration file.
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.It _whatdb
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The full pathname (not just a directory path) for a database to be used
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by the
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.Xr apropos 1
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and
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.Xr whatis 1
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commands.
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The pathname may contain the normal shell globbing characters,
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including curly braces
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.Pq Dq {} ;
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to escape a shell globbing character,
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precede it with a backslash
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.Pq Dq \e .
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.El
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.Pp
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Multiple specifications for all types of lines are cumulative and the
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entries are used in the order listed in the file; multiple entries may
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be listed per line, as well.
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.Pp
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Empty lines or lines whose first non-whitespace character is a hash
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mark
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.Pq Dq #
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are ignored.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact
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.It Pa /etc/man.conf
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Standard manual directory search path.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Given the following
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.Nm
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file:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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_version BSD.2
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_subdir cat[123]
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_suffix .0
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_build .[1-9] nroff -man %s
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_build .tbl tbl %s | nroff -man
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_default /usr/share/man/
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sect3 /usr/share/man/{old/,}cat3
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.Ed
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.Pp
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By default, the command
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.Dq Li man mktemp
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will search for
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.Dq mktemp.\*[Lt]any_digit\*[Gt]
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and
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.Dq mktemp.tbl
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in the directories
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.Dq Pa /usr/share/man/cat1 ,
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.Dq Pa /usr/share/man/cat2 ,
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and
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.Dq Pa /usr/share/man/cat3 .
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If on a machine of type
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.Dq vax ,
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the subdirectory
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.Dq vax
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in each
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directory would be searched as well, before the directory was
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searched.
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.Pp
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If
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.Dq mktemp.tbl
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was found first, the command
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.Dq Li tbl \*[Lt]manual page\*[Gt] | nroff -man
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would be run to build a man page for display to the user.
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.Pp
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The command
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.Dq Li man sect3 mktemp
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would search the directories
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.Dq Pa /usr/share/man/old/cat3
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and
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.Dq Pa /usr/share/man/cat3 ,
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in that order, for
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the mktemp manual page.
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If a subdirectory with the same name as the current machine type
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existed in any of them, it would be searched as well, before each
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of them were searched.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr machine 1 ,
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.Xr man 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1 ,
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.Xr whereis 1 ,
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.Xr fnmatch 3 ,
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.Xr glob 3 ,
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.Xr makewhatis 8
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