On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Jan Stary wrote: > I have some man pages installed in $HOME/man > so I ugment my manpath like this in my ~/.shrc > > test -d $HOME/man && alias man="man -m $HOME/man" > > Now man(1) complains saying > > $ man ls > man: -m/home/hans/man: Bad argument > > Using "$HOME/man/" or "$HOME/man:" results in the same. > > Am I missing something obvious? > > Jan >
What does it show when you run the alias command with no arguments to display your current aliases? I noticed that in the error message there is no space between -m and the path. That seems a bit odd. Your `test -d $HOME/man && alias man="man -m $HOME/man"` works fine for me in ksh when I put it in a .profile on 5.6 -stable. -- John Merriam
