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Printing FAQ

How do I print man pages from the command line?

 man ls | col -b | lp

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Thu Feb 14 10:18:23 2008: Subject: Far better is...   anonymous


man -t <command> | lpr

e.g.: man -t ls | lpr

This will give you a very nice fully formatted, comfortably readable print-out of you man page, including title and page-numbers.

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Thu Feb 14 10:40:38 2008: Subject:   TonyLawrence


On a modern Linux or BSD system, yes.. but not on the old SCO boxes this was written for..

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