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This script creates PDF from man page and opens it within Preview.app. Only Mac OS X.

pman

Generates PDF from man page and opens it within Preview.app.

Install

curl -o /usr/local/bin/pman https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AlexDenisov/4294335/raw/9fe40c81f6fc94760e81040d2636d0e703fc676f/pman.pl
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pman

Usage

pman 2 open
pman calloc
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $cacheDir = $ENV{"HOME"} . "/.pdfman";
my $manFile = "$cacheDir/@ARGV.pdf";
my $tmpPsFile = "/tmp/@ARGV.ps";
unless (@ARGV) {
print "Usage: \n";
print " pman 2 open\n";
exit 1;
}
sub generateCache {
my $pageExists = system("man -t @_ > '$tmpPsFile' 2>/dev/null");
$" = " ";
if ($pageExists != 0) {
print "Could not find man page for '@_'\n";
exit 1;
}
print "Generating first time pdf for '@_'\n";
system("pstopdf '$tmpPsFile' -o '$manFile' /dev/null");
}
system("mkdir $cacheDir") unless -d $cacheDir;
generateCache(@ARGV) unless -e $manFile;
system("open -a /Applications/Preview.app '$manFile'");
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