Man Pages

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Where are man pages kept? and Explain the format of the man page directories

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said :
#1

At the prompt do:
  manpath
and then
  grep MANPATH /etc/manpath.config

To find out the default locations that your system uses.

Then see 'man man' and 'man 5 manpath' for more information on the
subject.

For those distros that follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard of which
Ubuntu is on this might also help to explain why thing are laid out as
they are:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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princen (spurchampion) said :
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Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.