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man -t manpagename gives a postscript version of said man page. You then pipe it to ls, and assuming you have cups set up, it prints in your default printer.
Place the line above in your ~/.bahsrc file. Now every time you issue the 'vb' command, you invoke the vim editor to edit it, then source it so the changes take effect immediately.
Notes:
* This mechanism is not working well if your .bashrc contains commands that should not be sourced more than once.
* This trick also work for your csh or tclsh users: place the following line in your ~/.cshrc file:
alias vc 'vim ~/.cshrc; source ~/.cshrc
Thank you adzap for pointing out the missing quote
Would be better if gnome-open would accept std in
Should be doable in KDE - anyone?
Simply pass an argument to the script to convert the manual page to a PDF:
man2pdf drutil
Search manpages for a keyword. Very useful when you don't know where to find the information.
If you are already running screen then you often want to start a command in a fresh window. You use this alias by typing 's whatever' from your command line and 'whatever' starts running in a new window. Good with interactive commands like info, vim, and nethack.