Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:11:13 +0200 From: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man Pages to Text Files Message-ID: <19980514151113.B27145@asterix.urc.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <001501bd7f2a$a08b9c60$0200a8c0@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:22:35AM -0500 References: <001501bd7f2a$a08b9c60$0200a8c0@fast1>
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On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:22:35AM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote:
> I thought I once saw a command line which would
> save a manpage to a file and remove the formatting
> so you could have a nice text file use later. I've looked
> through the handbook and don't seem to be able to find
> it again. Can anyone help me with this?
Try this:
$ man man | col -b > man.txt
$ more man.txt
Cheers,
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