On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote:
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> On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote:
>> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text? I want
>> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other
>> special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting
>> the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do
>> back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print
>> capabilities than that, IIRC.)
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The easiest way to do it, I believe, is with col . (Just try 'man
col' to check all the options.) I have used 'man topic | col -b' to
see the man page for topic with all the egregious stuff removed, and
I just append to the pipeline '>topic.man' if I want to save it.
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