Hi, The `whereis` command is supposed to look also in $PATH and $MANPATH. While the $PATH lookup works as expected, I observe a glitch how $MANPATH or -M is handled: The builtin man pages e.g. /usr/share/man will be expanded inside `whereis` as /usr/share/man/* to look into the individual sections man1, man2, ... This seems not to happen neither for the paths given in $MANPATH, nor the command line argument -M. While for the command line argument it might be a matter of discussion whether one prefers that it's necessary to specify /opt/chemsoft/man/man1 instead of just /opt/chemsoft/man, it's mandatory to have a setting of /opt/chemsoft/man in $MANPATH to get access to different sections of the man pages with the usual `man 1 mycommand` resp. `man 3 mycommand` from the individual subdirectories man1 and man3. I would prefer that `whereis` looks in all the subdircetories of all the paths set in $MANPATH too. (observed in the actual version util-linux-2.28) -- Reuti-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
