#!/bin/sh CACHE=/tmp/preman if [ ! $1 ]; then # give man's wtf error man exit fi # get manpage name MANPAGE=`man -w $@` if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then # not found # man will have printed an error exit fi MANPAGE=`basename $MANPAGE` PDF=$CACHE/$MANPAGE.pdf # create cache if it doesn't exist if [[ ! -d $CACHE ]]; then mkdir -p $CACHE fi # if there's no cached pdf, make one if [[ ! -r $PDF ]]; then man -t $@ | pstopdf -i -o $PDF fi open $PDF