Manual: paper

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.

       •      The PAPERSIZE environment variable

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

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

       •      The system default paper size in /etc/papersize

       •      The first paper size in the system list

       •      The first paper size in the user's list

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       PAPERSIZE
	      Paper size to use.

FILES
       /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 © 2013-2022 Reuben Thomas .  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 ver‐
       sion.See .

SEE ALSO
       paperspecs(5)

paper 2.2.5						 March 2026						    PAPER(1)