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To look through all man pages for a string there are two options

  1. loop through the manpages files with find, xargs and zgrep:
find $(manpath|tr ':' ' ') -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zgrep -i '\.config/systemd'
  1. simply use man -K notice the capital K:
man -K '.config/systemd'
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