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lagagnon

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[Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

I am wanting to print a few man pages direct from the command line. I used this command:

man command | lpr -P Printer

, which works, but the default font and characters per line produces output that straggles lines. I have looked at "man fmt" but there is no option to change font size, only max. line width. The problem is changing line width only partly solves the problem as man pages have linefeeds.

Any ideas on how to get a decent printed copy of man pages from the command line would be appreciated.

Last edited by lagagnon (2010-08-28 00:19:40)

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falconindy

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Re: [Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

This is actually covered in man's man page.

man -t alias | lpr -pPrinter

where alias is the page you want to print.

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lagagnon

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Re: [Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

DOH! Maybe I should learn to read the man pages a bit more carefully - thanks falconindy!

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Inxsible

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Re: [Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

please mark as solved

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Doehni

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Re: [Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

DOH! Maybe I should learn to read the man pages a bit more carefully - thanks falconindy!

Just memorize them after printing...

quigybo

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Re: [Solved] Reformatting man page print from command line?

I love the -t option, I actually have it as a function to view man pages as pdf, it is really handy on longer manuals as the output of -t is much nicer than reading from a terminal.

manpdf () {man -t $1 | ps2pdf - /tmp/manpdf_$1.pdf && xdg-open /tmp/manpdf_$1.pdf ;}