Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 09:03:39 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 12:45:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > man pages are written in troff/nroff (which can be compiled using groff)
> > using the man style. You can do the following, for instance:
> >
> > gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chmod.1.gz | groff -man | lp
> >
> > (or replace "lp" with "gv -" to see on screen).
>
> This appears to produce a Postscript stream. I'm pretty sure that isn't
> what Gene wanted (but who knows, since the question was apparently "how
> do I save a man page's text, without markup, into a file" and the answer
> turned out to be "man foo > file", which should not have required asking
> a worldwide mailing list for help).
It appears Gene Heskett wants to print a man page (but maybe not). In
this case, I see nothing wrong with 'man -t | lp'.
BTW, I do not think gv accepts an output piped to it.
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Brian.
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