Printing man pages
If you hadn’t realised how easy it is at the moment to print a ‘man’ page, try this:
man -t man | lpr
The -t switch makes man output the page in Postscript. The man page suggests that you can have the page output in any of a number of other handy formats instead if you dig a little deeper.
Why print a man page? Reading from paper is easier on my eyes than from a screen and the prettier typefaces are also clearer. The paper version is more portable, too.
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