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marfig

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Adding a user path to MANPATH

I have a ~/.local/bin folder to which I have been adding some homemade scripts that I wish only this user to have access to.

In addition I have been writing man pages for these scripts that I wish to store under the same structure for consistency, at /.local/share/man.

How do you propose I extend $MANPATH under Arch to include this folder without editing the global /etc/man_db.conf?

Last edited by marfig (2017-06-20 18:25:50)

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marfig

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2010-07-30

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Re: Adding a user path to MANPATH

To be clear, I did read the wiki (man and $MANPATH). I'm however eerie of commenting unset MANPATH in /etc/profile, since I'm not clear of the consequences.

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- Paraphrased from Blaise Pascal