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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert FF (feed form) in text file so that when printing the printer print on a new page accordingly Post 303028709 by jcdole on Sunday 13th of January 2019 10:16:09 AM
Old 01-13-2019
If somebody has a better, shorter, cleaner solution tell me.

First create a groff file

Code:
echo "" > /tmp/part_list.groff echo ".nf" >> /tmp/part_list.groff  # NO FILL MODE 
FIRST_PASS="true"

for A_DEVICE in $(lsblk --noheadings -o kname) ; do
... 
...
...
    if [[ -z $FIRST_PASS ]] ; then
           echo ".bp" >> /tmp/part_list.groff  # do a page break if not processing the first device
        else
            FIRST_PASS=""
        fi
         CUR_DEVICE="$A_DEVICE"      # A_DEVICE = /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc .....           
         gdisk -l "$CUR_DEVICE"  >>  /tmp/part_list.groff  2>&1  

done
 #
# Finished
#
echo ".pl -3" >> /tmp/part_list.groff  # i do adjustment because groff page length does not match 
                                                 # the page length of my laser printer
                                                 # so I got to much line feed.
echo ".ex" >> /tmp/part_list.groff     # No more to do

2) Build the text file :
Code:
groff -Tascii /tmp/part_list.groff > /tmp/part_list.txt

Any comment is welcome
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

mmroff

MMROFF(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MMROFF(1)

NAME

       mmroff - reference preprocessor

SYNOPSIS

       mmroff [ -x ] groff_arguments

DESCRIPTION

       mmroff is a simple preprocessor for groff, it is used for expanding references in mm, see groff_mm(7).  groff is executed twice, first with
       -z and -rRef=1 to collect all references and then to do the real processing when the reference file is up to date.

       -x     Just create the reference file. This can be used to refresh the reference file, it isn't always needed to have  accurate	references
	      and by using this option groff will only be run once.

AUTHOR

       Jorgen Hagg, Lund, Sweden <jh@axis.se>.

FILES

       /usr/share/groff/1.21/tmac/m.tmac

       /usr/share/groff/1.21/tmac/mm/*.cov

       /usr/share/groff/1.21/tmac/mm/*.MT

       /usr/share/groff/1.21/tmac/mm/locale

SEE ALSO

       groff_mm(7), groff_mmse(7), groff(1), troff(1), tbl(1), pic(1), eqn(1)

Groff Version 1.21						 31 December 2010							 MMROFF(1)
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