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Regular usage is just man followed by the name of the command you want to know about. | |||
<source lang="bash"> | |||
man ls | |||
</source> | |||
'''Really Useful''': You can use -t to format the output of man as paginated postscript and pipe the results to ps2pdf to make a PDF file! | |||
<source lang="bash"> | <source lang="bash"> | ||
man -t ls | ps2pdf - > ls.pdf | man -t ls | ps2pdf - > ls.pdf | ||
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== manpdf == | == manpdf == | ||
Hard to remember the commands for making a PDF? So create a bash script that's in your path (for instance ~/bin/manpdf), | |||
with: | |||
<source lang="bash"> | <source lang="bash"> | ||
#!/bin/bash | #!/bin/bash | ||
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</source> | </source> | ||
And be sure to chmod +x it so that you can then use it anytime you want to generate a PDF for intensive consulation. | |||
For example: | |||
manpdf mplayer | manpdf mplayer | ||
to create mplayer.pdf | |||
Latest revision as of 14:53, 8 October 2023
Regular usage is just man followed by the name of the command you want to know about.
man ls
Really Useful: You can use -t to format the output of man as paginated postscript and pipe the results to ps2pdf to make a PDF file!
man -t ls | ps2pdf - > ls.pdf
manpdf
Hard to remember the commands for making a PDF? So create a bash script that's in your path (for instance ~/bin/manpdf),
with:
#!/bin/bash
man -t $1 | ps2pdf - > $1.pdf
And be sure to chmod +x it so that you can then use it anytime you want to generate a PDF for intensive consulation.
For example:
manpdf mplayer
to create mplayer.pdf