David’s Thoughts

Here’s a nifty gem in Pathfinder. I’ll admit, it’s pretty geeky, but if you’re a mac coder doing stuff on the command-line at all, you’ll dig this.

If you have Pathfinder installed, just go to File -> Reports -> Man to PDF. Type in the command or program you want the man page for. Select it from the list, and boom, you’ve the manual for it as a PDF. I think this is cool because I can easily have it open in a separate window from my terminal window, plus, it seems like I can explore the man page more quickly.

Here’s an example, for the ‘ls’ command.

ls.pdf

cheers!