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Why does “User Contributed Perl Documentation” show up when I look for 'man' pages
When I
man -f <some string>
in addition to the expected Unix man pages, I get a bunch of odd looking entries that all have the header "User Contributed Perl Documentation". For example
man ...
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How do the various configuration files determine MANPATH on Darwin?
On Darwin (12.2.0, OS X 10.8.2, bash 3.2.48(1)) my MANPATH appears to be determined by my PATH rather than by the various configuration files associated with man and the man path, /etc/manpaths, ...
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How is the path to search for 'man' pages set?
I'm puzzled by how the path used for finding man pages is set. The "right thing" seems to happen magically. For example, if change my PATH from
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