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?
Not the best solution for every situation, but when I need hard copy
I just go get well formatted versions from the web rather than
trying to munge the output from the local system:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
You could save those views as HTML, I suppose. I prefer to always be
getting the latest version. I also find that in a pinch (lame
printer + no/slow Internet) it works OK to do
man foo | lp
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Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
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