Tuesday 29 January 2008

pman - generate man pages in pdf format on OSX

Generate PDF man files in OSX

Drop the following code in your profile, log out & log back in and man your favourite manpage but use 'pman' this time.

pman()
{
man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/
}


You'll be presented a PDF document of your man page when you can refer to anytime, complete with search, zoom and anything else you can do with a pdf.

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