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How to Print a Man Page

If you want to print a man page, it’s this simple:

man ls | col -b | lp

If you just want to instead save the man page to a file, so you could email it or post it to a web site, just leave out the trailing | lp, as in

man ls | col -b > ls-man.txt

This will save the man page for the ls command without any formatting, to a file named ls-man.txt.