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View nicely formatted 'man' pages
Authored by: andyinindy on Oct 04, '04 02:26:33PM

You can also do this without ps2pdf using this Applescript:


tell application "Finder"
	activate
	display dialog "Please enter the terminal command name for which you would like a PDF-formatted man page:" default answer ""
	set commandName to the text returned of the result
end tell
set myGrog to (do shell script "man -w " & commandName)
set myGroff to (do shell script "grog " & myGrog)
do shell script myGroff & " > /Users/andy/Desktop/" & commandName & ".ps"
do shell script "open /Users/andy/Desktop/" & commandName & ".ps"
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    View nicely formatted 'man' pages

    
      Authored by: andyinindy on Oct 04, '04 02:27:54PM
    
  
  minus the </code> and </pre> tags... why did those get posted??
     


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    View nicely formatted 'man' pages

    
      Authored by: andyinindy on Oct 04, '04 02:31:47PM
    
  
  Oh, and here's the script without the /Users/andy part (so it'll work on your system):

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	display dialog "Please enter the terminal command name for which you would like a PDF-formatted man page:" default answer ""
	set commandName to the text returned of the result
end tell
set myGrog to (do shell script "man -w " & commandName)
set myGroff to (do shell script "grog " & myGrog)
do shell script myGroff & " > $HOME/Desktop/" & commandName & ".ps"
do shell script "open $HOME/Desktop/" & commandName & ".ps"

     


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