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groff

List of commands for groff:

  • groff:tldr:02f5b groff: Render a man page using the ASCII output device, and display it using a pager.
    $ groff -man -T ascii ${path-to-manpage-1} | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
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  • groff:tldr:192e2 groff: Format output for a PostScript printer, saving the output to a file.
    $ groff ${path-to-input-roff} > ${path-to-output-ps}
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  • groff:tldr:1c712 groff: Run a `groff` command with preprocessor and macro options guessed by the `grog` utility.
    $ eval "$(grog -T utf8 ${path-to-input-me})"
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  • groff:tldr:6c496 groff: Typeset a roff file containing [t]ables and [p]ictures, using the [me] macro set, to PDF, saving the output.
    $ groff ${-t} ${-p} -${me} -T ${pdf} ${path-to-input-me} > ${path-to-output-pdf}
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  • groff:tldr:fd250 groff: Render a man page into an HTML file.
    $ groff -man -T html ${path-to-manpage-1} > ${path-to-manpage-html}
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