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For those on Linux you can do this with:

f=$(mktemp);man -t "$@" > "$f" && ( {some-pdf-viewer} "$f" ; rm "$f" )

... replacing '{some-pdf-viewer}' with whatever PDF viewer works for you. There is probably one that will take the document on stdin, but I am not aware of one.

I realize I'm late to the party here, but thought is was worth posting anyway. (edited for typo)



With BSD man (default on Void Linux) you can do:

MANPAGER=<some-pdf-viewer> man -T pdf <command>


You should be able to avoid using mktemp by:

pman='some-pdf-viewer <(man -t "$@")'


Apparently not possible for PDFs, see https://superuser.com/questions/1243405/using-process-substi... . TIL




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