From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to print a program
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:05:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinuEhCFAYCe14GiifKc_EspLpeK4LVf5f9n9Sn8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimkgjjknwiSG8Mzpskw6sRReH5hxuBjuXzd-K3v@mail.gmail.com>
also, a nice feature of 'fmt' is that long lines are broken AND
indented according to the start of the just-being-processed line; this
is welcome...
R
On 7 September 2010 23:00, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-07 21:00 Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-07 21:05 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
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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