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man2pdf Convert unix manpage to PDF

#!/bin/bash

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# #
# man2pdf #
# a simple bash script to convert a man page to pdf #
# #
# Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Trond Aasan #
# #
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify #
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or #
# (at your option) any later version. #
# #
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, #
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of #
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the #
# GNU General Public License for more details. #
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software #
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA #
# #
# If you find this useful in any way, or if you find a bug, #
# feel free to e-mail me. #
# #
# Trond Aasan #
# http://www.aasan.org/ #
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# $Id: man2pdf,v 1.6 2004/01/23 18:35:41 trondaas Exp $

MAN=$(which man)
if [ -z "$MAN" ]; then
echo "man executable not found in path" >&2
exit 1;
fi

GROFF=$(which groff)
if [ -z "$GROFF" ]; then
echo "groff executable not found in path" >&2
exit 1;
fi

GS=$(which gs)
if [ -z "$GS" ]; then
echo "gs executable not found in path" >&2
exit 1;
fi

USAGE="Usage: $0 [options] [outfile]
Options:
-n SECTION man section
-h Print this help message

If no section is specified, use first hit.

If outfile is not specified, write output to .
.pdf in
current directory.
"

unset MANSECT

while getopts 'n:h' opt; do
case $opt in
n )
export MANSECT="$OPTARG"
;;
h )
echo "$USAGE"
exit
;;
\? )
exit 1
;;
* )
echo "Error"
exit 1
;;
esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND - 1))

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "$USAGE"
exit 1
fi

infile=$("$MAN" -w -- "$1") || exit $?

if [ -z "$MANSECT" ]; then
AWK=$(which awk)
if [ -z "$AWK" ]; then
echo "awk executable not found in path. Will not guess man"\
"section" >&2
else
BASENAME=$(which basename)
if [ -z "$BASENAME" ]; then
echo "basename executable not found in path. Will not guess man"\
"section" >&2
else
basename=$("$BASENAME" "$infile")
section=$(echo "$basename" | "$AWK" -F . \
"/$(echo "$1" | tr . '\.')\.([0-9a-zA-Z])(\.gz)?$/{print \$2}")
fi
fi
fi

case "$infile" in
*.gz | *.Z)
CAT=$(which zcat)
;;
*.bz)
CAT=$(which bzcat)
;;
*.bz2)
CAT=$(which bz2cat)
;;
*)
CAT=$(which cat)
;;
esac

if [ -z "$CAT" ]; then
exit 1
fi

if [ -n "$2" ]; then
outfile="$2"
else
if [ -n "$section" ]; then
outfile="$1.$section.pdf"
else
outfile="$1.pdf"
fi
fi

"$CAT" -- "$infile" | "$GROFF" -t -E -Tps -mandoc -ma4 \
| "$GS" -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$outfile" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE='a4' -


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