From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 07:59:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA03113 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA03067 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA25548; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:56:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Ruslan Ermilov Message-Id: <199710061456.RAA25548@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file In-Reply-To: <3439f241.3996625@mail.leirianet.pt> from Jose Monteiro at "Oct 6, 97 02:16:22 pm" To: jm@pluriproj.pt Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:56:36 +0300 (EEST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN