From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 22:12:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464C037B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B7743E65 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g825CUNK005782 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 01:12:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 01:12:30 -0400 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message