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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What's the difference between print and printf in command? Post 302623531 by Henryyy on Friday 13th of April 2012 07:25:05 PM
Old 04-13-2012
Oh, I should really read the man page carefully...
Thanks a lot!
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bookman(1)																bookman(1)

NAME
bookman - Generate a book from man pages SYNOPSIS
bookman [-pPxn] [-o outfile] [-a author] [-d date] [-r release] [-t title] [-v volume] [-c coverfile] [manfile] DESCRIPTION
bookman compiles a set of man pages files specified by manfile arguments, or if no manfile is given, filenames are read from standard input. OPTIONS
-p PDF output format. -P Postscript output format. -x X11 previewing, using gxditview(1). -n no format, output is direct gtroff intermediate format. -o outfile Output in file outfile. Default is standard output. -a author Set the author, on the cover page. -d date Set the date on the cover page. -r release Set the book name and release on the cover page. -t title Set the title on the cover page. -v volume Specify the name of the volume. -c coverfile Uses the file coverfile to generate the cover page, i.e. all pages preceding the table of content. coverfile must be in groff_ms(7) format. EXAMPLE
To build a reference manual from section 2 man, do: $ cd /usr/man/man2 $ bookman -p -t 'Unix Reference Manual' * >book.pdf SEE ALSO
man(1), mandoc(7), groff_ms(7), groff(1), troff(1), grops(1), gxditview(1), ps2pdf(1). AUTHOR
Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr> txt2man-1.5.5 11 April 2011 bookman(1)
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