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SHankara

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Original poster
Oct 5, 2007
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i type man 7za but cant be found in terminal,but if I go to x11 start it and open the manual browser its there,yet the man pages where installed in usr/local/man any reasons for this?Ive been asking alot of unix questions lately.
 

yeroen

macrumors 6502a
Mar 8, 2007
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Cambridge, MA
Is /usr/local/man in your $MANPATH environment variable?

If you're using bash then:

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/man

should sort you out.

You can put that line in /etc/bashrc to make it available to all users, or ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile if you want it just for yourself.
 
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