pdfman: initial.

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#!/bin/bash
: <<=cut
=pod
=head1 NAME
pdfman - View man page as PDF
=head1 SYNOPSIS
B<pdfman> I<manentry>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<pdfman> uses B<man -t> to generate a PDF-version of the man page. It
is then displayed using $PDFVIEWER.
If $PDFVIEWER is unset, it tries B<okular>, B<evince>, and B<gv>.
=head1 EXAMPLE
Show man page for pdfman:
pdfman pdfman
=head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2017 Ole Tange,
http://ole.tange.dk and Free Software Foundation, Inc.
=head1 LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
=head1 DEPENDENCIES
B<pdfman> uses B<man> and B<ps2pdf>.
=head1 SEE ALSO
B<man>
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dir=/tmp/pdfman-`echo $USER "$@" | md5sum|cut -d ' ' -f 1`
pdf="$dir/$@"
viewer=$PDFVIEWER
if which okular >/dev/null; then
viewer=${viewer:-okular}
fi
if which evince >/dev/null; then
viewer=${viewer:-evince}
fi
if which gv >/dev/null; then
viewer=${viewer:-gv}
fi
cleanup() {
if [ "$noclean" == 1 ] ; then
true
else
rm $pdf
rmdir $dir
fi
}
control_c() {
echo -en "\n$0: CTRL-C hit: Exiting.\n" >&2
cleanup 2>/dev/null
}
pdfviewer() {
if [ "$noview" == 1 ] ; then
true
else
$viewer "$1"
fi
}
trap control_c SIGINT
if [ -d "$dir" ] ; then
# PDF-viewer already running for this $pdf
# Assume it will re-read new file and do the cleanup
noclean=1
noview=1
else
mkdir "$dir"
fi
man -w "$@" | parallel 'zcat {} || cat {}' 2>/dev/null |
# Convert -- to - and '' to "
(echo '.tr \--'; perl -pe "s/''|\`\`/\"\"/g;") |
man -tl - | ps2pdf - >$pdf && pdfviewer $pdf
cleanup 2>/dev/null