[SATLUG] Linux Tip: printing man pages

Daniel J. Givens daniel at rugmonster.org
Mon Oct 1 12:35:59 CDT 2007


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twistedpickles wrote:
> man  -t dhcpd | lpr -P hpLaserJet4300
> 
> command will print man pages for dhcpd to printer "hpLaserJet4300"

I have found that printing through Yelp tends to give better results. If
you use a desktop with Gnome, you can use Yelp to open manpages by
entering man:<command> into the search bar. Say I want to read the
manpage for nfs, I type in man:nfs. And like I said before, the printout
is just a little better.

I use XFCE4 on my desktop and have Yelp installed so I can look at
manpages nicely formatted. For whatever reason, it's harder for me to
read them in a console.

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Daniel J. Givens

daniel at rugmonster.org
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