On 23-Mar-2003/06:13 -0600, "Ryan K. McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know where I might be able to find a Linux MAN Page >collection in PDF format? One might ask, "why in PDF?" Well, I'll tell >you why, for a number of reasons. > [various reasons snipped] > >Anyhow, if someone comes across a compilation of the Linux MAN Pages in >PDF format or if they are willing to compile such a collection on their >own, then I would appreciate it if that person would notify me via >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even POST a response in this forum/newsgroup.
#!/bin/sh # # Build a PDF version of all man pages on system. # # Start in my Home directory, and create a directory # for the PDF man pages. cd $HOME mkdir man cd man # Walk through the manpage sections, creating subdirectories # for each on ein my Home directory. for section in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do mkdir $HOME/man/man$section cd /usr/share/man/man$section # Get a list of files and convert each one to PDF. for manfile in (ls -1); do basefile=(basename $manfile .gz) man -t ./$manfile | ps2pdf > $HOME/man/man$section/$basefile.pdf done done # End of script. echo "Done." Do the same thing for /usr/local/man. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list