08-16-2013
If you leave a pattern unquoted it will work too, unless there happens to be one or more files in the current directory that match that pattern (the shell will then expand the pattern first), which can lead to surprising results, so it is a good habit to quote those patterns..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 08-16-2013 at 12:09 PM..
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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>
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