blog.lundscape.com » man http://blog.lundscape.com The Linux Journey Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Your own personal man directory http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/02/your-own-personal-man-directory/ http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/02/your-own-personal-man-directory/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:08:04 +0000 Zachary Lund http://blog.lundscape.com/?p=16 Recently, I wanted to install a program in my home bin directory, and it had a man page to go with it. I started looking for a way to create my own personal man directory. According to the manual page for man, “man uses a sophisticated method of finding manual page files.” Indeed it does. It turns out that all I had to do was create a man directory inside of my home directory and man would know it was there:

zac@dakara:~$ manpath
/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
zac@dakara:~$ mkdir man
zac@dakara:~$ manpath
/home/zac/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man

Then to install the man page, I simply had to create the appropriate directory structure and copy the man page in:

zac@dakara:~$ mkdir -p man/en/man1/
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