[SOLVED] Printing man-pages in original format

JZL240I-U · 04-10-2003, 03:08 AM

Good morning everybody.

With the usual man "command" I get very nicely formatted information on the screen. How can I print it, retaining the nice features like bold fonts, sensible paragraphs, carriage-returns, line-spacing etc.etc.?

I tried man "command" > command.text but got ugly results.

My distribution has a built in help feature, which allows printing, but with a bigger font and not in the original layout. Anybody any ideas/experiences?

bulliver · 04-10-2003, 01:00 PM

I think you need to get creative and pipe the file right to your printer device. I am not sure if it will retain formatting but....
man whatever | cat >> /dev/lpd0
might work for you depending on how your printing is set up.

A better idea might be to go to the LDP website where they have all the manpages in html and print them from there.

JZL240I-U · 08-06-2003, 03:16 AM

Here is another answer, looks good to me, though I didn't try it yet.

JZL240I-U · 10-26-2010, 09:26 AM

This is the absolute beauty:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3932551

All credits to jschiwal and Kudos

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