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Generate a PDF of a manpage for easier/offline reading. Great for zfs/zpool manpages…
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pdfman.sh
#!/bin/bash
MANFILE=$( man -w $1 $2 )
NAME=$( basename $MANFILE )
if [ -r $MANFILE ]; then
groff -mandoc $MANFILE -t | pstopdf -i -o "$NAME.pdf"
echo "wrote $NAME.pdf"
else
echo $MANFILE #Error message, probably.
fi
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