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Re: regex man-page confusion

On 9/16/2018 5:52 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Thanks; on the system with both packages not installed, man -w regcomp
> says nothing (rather than "No manual entry...");
> `manpath` reveals /usr/share/man:/cygdrive/c/Windows/SUA/usr/share/man
> and in fact, the man page displayed comes from my SUA installation. But
> $MANPATH is empty, so what makes cygwin `man` access the SUA man pages???
> 

As per [1] you need to check your /etc/man_db.conf file.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/manpath.5.html

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