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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:26:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: walt <walt@nea-fast.com>
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Subject: Re: printing from command line
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, walt wrote:

> This is a general linux question, not really a kernel question. Does
> anyone know if there is a "simple" good way to print code from linux at
> the command promt.  On a Solaris machine,
> /usr/openwin/bin/mp -o -l filename
> gives me a page with 2 columuns, user_name, date, and pagenumber at the
> top of each column, and the filename at the bottom of each column. I've
> read  lots of howtos and man pages, even wrote a perl script to wrap the
> lines for me, but I haven't figured out how to get the same format from
> Linux as I do from Solaris.
> 
> Thanks!

I think you want `pr` although some formatting isn't automatic. `man pr`
shows it takes more parameters than `ls`. Fortunately, you can make
an alias.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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