Re: [LIH] Printing man pages

[sreangsu acharyya]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, shubhendu wrote:
> > redirection shud do u the good , i think
> > man <command> > lp 

> do u ever try to see the output of redirection 
> it contains a lot of garbage 

 yeah it has a lot of single space returns to get the "bold" effect. You
can use 

 man <command> | tr -sd "\b" [:alnum:] >lp

or for a prettier effect go   through groff.

sreangsu




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