Unix Tip: MAPPING MAN

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Unix Tip 2976 - March 31, 2010

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MAPPING MAN

In Solaris, indexing the man pages:

1. Set your MANPATH variable to include all your man pages to be indexed:

Eg. #> MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/dt/man:/opt/VRTSvxvm/man; export MANPATH

2. Use catman command to index the man pages:

#> catman -w

Now you can use 'whatis' command to know what a command does and 'man -k' commands to search for a keyword in man pages.

This tip generously supported by: MohanGullipalli@firstusa.com

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