On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Gwen Morse wrote:

> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
> to work.
>
> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>
> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
> a single-step way.

man | col -b | lpr

David

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David Sumbler writes:
>On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Gwen Morse wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
>> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
>> to work.
>>
>> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
>> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>>
>> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
>> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
>> a single-step way.
>
>man | col -b | lpr
>

Which loses all the fancy formatting.

try

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz | groff -man - | lpr

scott

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>David Sumbler writes:
>>On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Gwen Morse wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
>>> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
>>> to work.
>>>
>>> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
>>> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>>>
>>> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
>>> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
>>> a single-step way.
>>
>>man | col -b | lpr
>>
>
>Which loses all the fancy formatting.
>
>try
>
>$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz | groff -man - | lpr
>

Some man pages (which use pic and/or tbl) need -t and -p
supplied to groff.

e.g.

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz | groff -t -p -man - | lpr

scott

In article <9b474018iom44qrv454u8htj8jppm3a8go@4ax.com>, Gwen Morse wrote:
> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
> to work.
>
> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>
> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
> a single-step way.

How do you want it printed? With bold, just plain text, etc?

E.g. "man man" suggests:

To get a plain text version of a man page, without backspaces
and underscores, try

man foo | col -b > foo.mantxt

Does your printer driver accept plain text or does it need
PostScript files?

If it accepts plain text, you can try:

man whatever | col -b | lpr

That will give plain text.

Or, from "man man"

-t Use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the manual page

That will format as Postscript, so you get bold, etc.

Then try:

man -t whatever | lpr

(use whatever switches you need on lpr)

and there are other programmes to print it and ...
ah, well, ... there are ways ...

In article <9b474018iom44qrv454u8htj8jppm3a8go@4ax.com>,
Gwen Morse wrote:
:Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
rinter? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
:to work.
:
:What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
:without having to know where the original page file is stored.

man -T logwatch | lpr

This presumes that you have printing of PostScript documents
working correctly.

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Gwen Morse wrote:

> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
> to work.
>
> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>
> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
> a single-step way.

If you're running a recent version of KDE, you can open a man document and
print it. You can even print to PDF and then use Kword to edit the PDF
files.


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Gwen Morse wrote:
> Is there a way to send the contents of a man page directly to the
> printer? I've been fiddling with tee and lpr, and I'm not getting them
> to work.
>
> What I want to be able to do is print, say, the man page for logwatch,
> without having to know where the original page file is stored.
>
> So far I've been redirecting output to a text file in my home
> directory and printing that, but, I can't help but think there must be
> a single-step way.
>
> Gwen
>

One of the previous replies came very close.

I use

man -t logwatch | lpr

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