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Printing a Man Page
You can create a copy of an on-line manual page in PostScript or ASCII format using the groff command. You can then print this file on a PostScript printer.
You first need to determine the location of the corresponding unformatted man page file. You can do this with a little help from the find command. Let's say you're wanting to print the man page for ls. You can find the unformatted man page for it like this:
% find `echo $MANPATH | tr : \ ` -name "ls.*" -print /usr/share/man/sman1/ls.1 /usr/share/man/sman1b/ls.1b
You can now create the corresponding man page file, preview it
on-screen, and print it out if you'd like, as follows:
DVI
Create: groff -t -man -Tdvi PATHNAME > manpage.dvi
Preview: xdvi manpage.dvi
Print: lpr -d -Plaser1 manpage.dvi
PostScript
Create: groff -t -man -Tps PATHNAME > manpage.ps
Preview: ghostview manpage.ps
Print: lpr -v -Plaser1 manpage.ps
ASCII
Create: groff -t -man -Tascii PATHNAME | colcrt - > manpage.txt
Preview: more manpage.txt
Print: lpr -Pdot6 manpage.txt
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