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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:56:36 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        jm@pluriproj.pt
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Saving a man page to a text file
Message-ID:  <199710061456.RAA25548@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3439f241.3996625@mail.leirianet.pt> from Jose Monteiro at "Oct 6, 97 02:16:22 pm"

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Once Jose Monteiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I save the contents os a man page to a text file without any
> escape codes included?
> 
> I tried 
> 
> $man xxxxx > xxxxx.txt 
> 
> but the text was not plain.

I use: man xxxxx | col -b > xxxxx.txt


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