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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 17:54:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: "M.T." <mbsd@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page
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To: Lee <sfpnkpu@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, David Banning wrote:
>
> > I would like to do a "man ls > lsmanpagefile" but I find that is has
> > a lot of control characters in the text. Any idea how I can lose it?
> >
> > I really just want to search a man page for a specific term, so I don't have
> > to read the whole man page looking for the area I am interested in.
> >
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> sed can produce a readable, printable manpage-file:
> % man <whatever> | sed s/.\CTRL-V CTRL-H//g > <whatever>.txt
>  has sed remove any charater followed by CTRL-H , and the
>  CTRL-H itself. The CTRL-V escapes the CTRL-H on the command
>  line(no space between the two).
> the output could be piped to grep <keyword> for further
> filtering.

Or use "col -b".  See col(1) -- it was created for this very purpose :)

  $.02,
  /Mikko


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