[sf-lug] printing web content

[Tom Haddon]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:48 -0800, Alex Kleider wrote:
> --- On Sun, 11/23/08, John Magolske <b79net at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
> > > 
> > > is there a way to download such a 'howto' all
> > at once instead of one
> > > chapter at a time? I's like to bring it in as one
> > document and then
> > > send it to a printer.
> > 
> > On the Users' Manuals overview page, various formats
> > are listed:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals
> > 
> > Maybe one of these will suit your needs:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/apt-howto.en.pdf
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/apt-howto.en.ps
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/apt-howto.en.txt
> 
> Thanks for the reference. That get's me a nice print out of the APT HOWTO.
> 
> The broader question still stands: is there a way of printing a manual or other content that appears in the format of many chapters such as:
> > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
> Having to print each section independantly is so 'non-unix!'

How about:

wget -P apt-howto -r -p -k --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=3
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
cd apt-howto
for i in *.html; do links -dump $i >> output.txt; done
lpr output.txt

Is that unix-y enough for you?

Cheers, Tom

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> alex
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