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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] how to print a program
Date: Tue,  7 Sep 2010 23:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimkgjjknwiSG8Mzpskw6sRReH5hxuBjuXzd-K3v@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper.
I want different files start on new pages, with the header of every
page being the file name and the page.
For this the command
a=`{ls} pr $a | lp -dstdout > toprint.ps
is almost ok.
That 'almost' is in the fact that long lines get truncated, which is
highly undesirable.
fmt -j
could help, but it also replaces spaces and tabs by a single space, again bad.
(btw. why
fmt <>afile
doesn't work?)

So how?
Can anybody help? (I mean, is there a one-liner?)
Thank you!
Ruda



             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 21:00 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2010-09-07 21:05 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-07 21:06 ` John Floren
2010-09-07 21:37   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-07 21:48     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-08  6:25   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-08  7:08     ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2010-09-08 17:59       ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-08 18:42       ` Akshat
2010-09-08 19:16         ` Charles Forsyth
2010-09-07 21:19 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-08 11:45 ` roger peppe
2010-09-08 13:55   ` Federico G. Benavento

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