Command-line tool

groff

brew/groff

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GNU troff text-formatting system

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install groff

Linux

brew install groff

Format output for a PostScript printer, saving the output to a file

groff path/to/input.roff > path/to/output.ps

Render a man page using the ASCII output device, and display it using a pager

groff -man -T ascii path/to/manpage.1 | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS

Render a man page into an HTML file

groff -man -T html path/to/manpage.1 > path/to/manpage.html

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