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Can anyone link me to the pdf directly. I don't find it on the link above. I am stupid.

Snarwin 4y ago
Someone has uploaded a PDF to github, here: https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual
6581 4y ago
There is no PDF.
veqq 4y ago
There is no pdf. Following the chain, you get to a git you can download. But this guy has a tar of it as a single html page. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=381284 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=381284
treeblah 4y ago
There's no direct PDF, you have to build it yourself w/ TeX by cloning the repo: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git cd c-intro-and-ref/ make c.pdf
1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
I am stupid, too. I generally do not use git(1). I wrote a short script to download the manual as a single 639K text file. I do not use a GUI or mouse so this makes it easier for me to work with code snippets. I also reformat the text to match personal preferences. Here is an example script using popular curl program to make the HTTP requests. # requirements: curl, links, perl, texinfo (Linux), texi2html (BSD) #!/bin/sh set -v; x0=c-intro-and-ref.git; x1=https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/; test -d $x0||mkdir $x0;cd $x0||exit; for x2 in Makefile c.texi cpp.texi fdl.texi fp.texi texinfo.tex;do echo url=$x1$x0/plain/$x2; echo output=$x2; echo user-agent=\"\"; done|curl -K/dev/stdin -s; case $(uname) in :) ;;*BSD) texi2html --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi ;;Linux) makeinfo --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi esac; # personal preference for ~15-inch screen: 4 space indent, 60-70 max chars per line links -width 70 -dump .html \ |sed '/^ *Link:/d;/^ *\*/s/\*//;s/^/ /;/Jump to: /{N;N;d;}' > c.txt; exec less c.txt;
- tolciho 4y ago
  printf 'the form\n' \ | tr a-z A-Z golfs to printf 'the form\n' | tr a-z A-Z but that only saves like one or two keystrokes but is probably good to know for shell trivia questions or when implementing something that supposedly can handle shell continuation lines
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
    djb used this style when shell scripting and I believe that is where I picked it up.^1 I have not seen (m)any HN commenters publishing their work for public scrutiny who are more skilled in programming, including C, than djb. Other programmers, good ones, but not a large number, copied his C style. 1. An extreme example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drudru/qhasm/master/qhasm-amd64 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drudru/qhasm/master/qhasm-...

Someone has uploaded a PDF to github, here: https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual

6581 4y ago

There is no PDF.

veqq 4y ago

There is no pdf. Following the chain, you get to a git you can download. But this guy has a tar of it as a single html page. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=381284 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=381284

treeblah 4y ago

There's no direct PDF, you have to build it yourself w/ TeX by cloning the repo: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git cd c-intro-and-ref/ make c.pdf

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago

I am stupid, too. I generally do not use git(1). I wrote a short script to download the manual as a single 639K text file. I do not use a GUI or mouse so this makes it easier for me to work with code snippets. I also reformat the text to match personal preferences. Here is an example script using popular curl program to make the HTTP requests. # requirements: curl, links, perl, texinfo (Linux), texi2html (BSD) #!/bin/sh set -v; x0=c-intro-and-ref.git; x1=https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/; test -d $x0||mkdir $x0;cd $x0||exit; for x2 in Makefile c.texi cpp.texi fdl.texi fp.texi texinfo.tex;do echo url=$x1$x0/plain/$x2; echo output=$x2; echo user-agent=\"\"; done|curl -K/dev/stdin -s; case $(uname) in :) ;;*BSD) texi2html --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi ;;Linux) makeinfo --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi esac; # personal preference for ~15-inch screen: 4 space indent, 60-70 max chars per line links -width 70 -dump .html \ |sed '/^ *Link:/d;/^ *\*/s/\*//;s/^/ /;/Jump to: /{N;N;d;}' > c.txt; exec less c.txt;

tolciho 4y ago
printf 'the form\n' \ | tr a-z A-Z golfs to printf 'the form\n' | tr a-z A-Z but that only saves like one or two keystrokes but is probably good to know for shell trivia questions or when implementing something that supposedly can handle shell continuation lines
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
  djb used this style when shell scripting and I believe that is where I picked it up.^1 I have not seen (m)any HN commenters publishing their work for public scrutiny who are more skilled in programming, including C, than djb. Other programmers, good ones, but not a large number, copied his C style. 1. An extreme example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drudru/qhasm/master/qhasm-amd64 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drudru/qhasm/master/qhasm-...