macOS MANPATH weirdness

by ipatch 6 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color-italic ◆ bash 1252 views

A short asciicast demoing my experience with the $MANPATH environment variable.

Takeaway

Notice how macOS picks up on the man pages for homebrew’s version of coreutils even though coreutils man pages have explicitly been set in the $MANPATH

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