HOWTO: Turn man(ual) pages into .pdf documents from the CLI

[Snowhog]

Ever wanted to create .pdf files from man(ual) pages? It's easy to do. Open a console and type:

man foo | enscript -o foo.ps | ps2pdf foo.ps [filename.pdf]

where foo is the manual page you want to create as a .pdf file. You can call foo.ps anything you want, but it must have the .ps extension. The optional [filename.pdf] allows you to create the resulting .pdf file with a different name (otherwise, the default foo.pdf will be created).

Examples:

man ls | enscript -o ls.ps | ps2pdf ls.ps

creates the file ls.pdf

man ls | enscript -o ls.ps | ps2pdf ls.ps ls_man_page.pdf

creates the file ls_man_page.pdf

[kubicle]

Re: HOWTO: Turn man(ual) pages into .pdf documents from the CLI

man -t ls | ps2pdf - man_ls.pdf

Should do it as well. (Being a tad simpler)

[MoonRise]

Re: HOWTO: Turn man(ual) pages into .pdf documents from the CLI

Thanks guys!!! Great!

[Snowhog]

Re: HOWTO: Turn man(ual) pages into .pdf documents from the CLI

man -t ls | ps2pdf - man_ls.pdf

Should do it as well. (Being a tad simpler)

Got to love 'simpler!' Tried it, and works just fine. Cool. Same result with less code.