man page question <print/copy text>

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For a man page, is there a way to copy all/part of the text displayed or to print it to PDF?

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if using kde, if you type the man page name in the location bar,then, select print,you can print that way.
e.g. type # iwconfig will bring up the man page for iwconfig,then just print it. A lot easier than copy/paste

Andy

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Hi
Just select with a mouse the bits you wish to copy, then in a document
etc just press your center mouse button to paste.

If you want the whole document just redirect it to a file eg;


man df > man_df.txt

From that you can open with an editor and print to pdf or use text2wav
if you want to listen to it :slight_smile:

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If you want the whole document just redirect it to a file eg;

Code:

man df > man_df.txt

Thanks, that was very helpful!

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You can generate a PDF version by:


man -T ps route > route.ps
ps2pdf route.ps

and voila you have route.pdf, a printable man page for the route utility.

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On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:46 +0000, zmdmw52 wrote:
> For a man page, is there a way to copy all/part of the text displayed or
> to print it to PDF?
>
>

If using kde, bring up konqueror and use man:/whatever

Then you can print using KDE’s normal print dialog which includes
printing to PDF (etc).