PAPER(1) User Commands PAPER(1)

NAME

paper - print paper size information

SYNOPSIS

paper [OPTION...] [PAPER...|--all]

DESCRIPTION

Print paper size information.

--all show information about all known paper sizes

--no-size
do not show paper sizes (width followed by height)

--unit UNIT
unit in which to show sizes [pt, mm, in; default: natural
units]

--help display this help message and exit

--version
display version information and exit

paper prints information about the given paper sizes, which can
include the standard form of its name, its width and height. The
output is designed to be both human- and machine-readable. The name
is matched case-insensitively, and ignoring spaces.

If neither a paper size nor the --all option is given, the current
paper size is used.

The current paper size is obtained by looking in order at the
following values until a non-empty value is found. If no paper size
is configured, paper exits with an error.

+o The PAPERSIZE environment variable

+o The user's default paper size in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/papersize

+o The current locale's default paper size (if supported by the
system)

+o The system default paper size in /usr/etc/papersize

+o The first paper size in the system list

+o The first paper size in the user's list

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

PAPERSIZE
Paper size to use.

FILES

/usr/etc/papersize
System default paper size.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/papersize
User's default paper size.

AUTHOR

Written by Reuben Thomas.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2013-2022 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>. paper comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of paper
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, or, at
your option, any later version.See
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.

SEE ALSO

paperspecs(5)

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