On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:59:46 Bret Hughes wrote: >Bob Hartung wrote: >> There are times that I would like to print some of the man >> pages to read through when away from the computer. Is there >> a way to capture a particular man page to a text file that >> will have proper formatting? > >Do you mean other than redirect the output? I use man command |lpr and >man command > filename all the time "man command > file" creates a text file that looks okay with "less" but includes carriage returns that may not be handled correctly by other tools (take a look at it in vi). Another possibility is a PDF file. Here's a short script that does the trick: #!/bin/sh # # man2pdf: Converts a manpage to PDF format. # # Requires ps2pdf utility. # Make sure the required argument is present. if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "Usage: `basename $0` [section] commandname" exit fi # Assign a section variable if specified on the command line if [ -n "$2" ]; then command="$2" section="$1" else command="$1" section="" fi # Convert to Postscript man -t $section $command > $command.ps # Convert to PDF ps2pdf $command.ps # Check for success if [ -f $command.pdf ]; then echo "Created $command.pdf" else echo '$0 failed to create $1.pdf.' fi # Remove intermediate Postscript file rm $command.ps # end of script Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 ICQ: 91183266 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
