After all your command-line data munging (possibly in a Unix pipeline), if you want to convert the resulting text to PDF (without leaving the command line :-),

After all your command-line data munging (possibly in a Unix pipeline), if you want to convert the resulting text to PDF (without leaving the command line :-), check this post: [xtopdf] PDFWriter can create PDF from standard input: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-can-create-pdf-from.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-can-creat... It needs xtopdf and ReportLab (use v1.17) and Python (use 2.2 or higher). Online overview of xtopdf: http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf xtopdf on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf