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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:22:21 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to get an ascii man page
Message-ID:  <20020902052221.GV785@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com>
References:  <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com>

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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:12:30AM -0400, 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.

You can use the cat-ted manpages: gzcat /usr/share/man/cat1/ls.1.gz

Edwin

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