[NBLUG/talk] Neat command line tricks

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Wed Jul 9 10:11:02 PDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:26, Kevin Bingham wrote:
> Does anybody else have similar neat tricks?

I just thought of one more.  I once wanted to print a man page out on
paper and found the neat little trick of:

man -t <manpage> | lpr

man -t <manpage> processes the manpage through groff and then echo's it
out to the screen as a postscript file, which I redirect to lpr.

Jeremy

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