On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:53:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple > > redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with > > control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save > > the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that is > > not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time? > > man -t foo > foo.ps > > will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing.
Highly useful to know, but shouldn't we update the man page for man(1)? -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. This does not exactly spell 'output postscript' to me... --Stijn -- Coughlin's law: never tell tales about a woman no matter how far away she is, she'll always hear you. -- Cocktail
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