Where are man pages stored in Ubuntu?
Problem
I hope my question isn't too trivial, but I've never actually needed to know this before. In which directory can I find the files of the man pages, i.e. the read-only text file opened when you type ? I assume different distros may keep them in slightly different places, so if it makes any difference I run Ubuntu 10.04.
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man foo
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Fix for: Where are man pages stored in Ubuntu?
Use to see the directories used by your system, and to find a specific manual page of foo. The standard location is according to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and is usually a symlink to that directory. Other locations can be defined in or (exact location varies). For example, /usr/local/share/man is almost always included. In addition, man tries to find manual pages for every directory specified in $PATH ā for example, if you added /opt/plan9/bin to $PATH, man will automatically search /opt/pā¦
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