Re: [Nolug] Question about piping commands together

On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:44, Wimprine, Thomas spake:
> At a meeting a few months ago Judson showed us how to pipe commands
> together. I'm trying to remember how to do something we did. I want to take
> the man pages and get them to pdf.
>
> I know it was something with a2ps (man $something) ps2pdf

Um... I remember Mischa doing that a few meetings ago. Here's what I was able
to come up with:

man $something | a2ps -o - | ps2pdf -  > $something.pdf

Apparently a2ps wants an output file, and setting it to "-" means standard
out. Ditto ps2pdf, although that command doesn't require the "-o" flag.

...but yeah, what Scott said.

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