Ever wonder how you can get a man page in into a format you can read and print? There’s many methods of doing it (copy and paste is one) but one the easiest I’ve found is:
man command | col -x -b > command.txt
Where command is the Linux command man page you want to print/view. From there, open up command.txt in your favorite gui text editor (gedit, kate) and you have a readable format that could be printed quite easily for reference.
IMHO, much better (and easier) is using konqueror as a man and info pages reader; in konqueror’s location bar, type
man:command-where command stands for the prog you’re looking for. Then you can browse the man page in a comfortable and nice way (uses CSS so the information looks more clearer), use inlay links (to related manpages), etc. Of course, you can print and preview print results.That will work great for KDE based desktops! Thanks for that tip! It is true that Konqueror makes life easier for those of us that choose KDE.
Actually, even better is if you do ‘#command’ gets the the man page and ‘##command’ gets you the info page. I document more kwickies here:
http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/08/31/konqueror-kwickies/
But I’m not sure why the need for the col pipe. If I just redirect to a file, it looks fine to me. Maybe because I use ‘less’ as my MANPAGER?