Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> > > I just want to know how can I output a manpage to a text format.
> >
> > man /path/to/file > file.txt
>
> This detects the terminal line width and formats the man page
> accordingly, which may be undesired. Is there any way to tell
> man how long lines to use? I couldn't find a way when I had
> this problem a year or so ago.
Dunno, but if you find out, let me know :)
> >You may wish to filter the output through
> >
> > sed 's/.^H//g'
>
> I doubt this is enough. Doesn't man write bold letters using
> something like this:
> b^Hbo^Hol^Hld^Hd
> Removing backspaces (^H) from this would lead to
> bboolldd
> instead of
> bold
> Hmm. That might even work, if "." means "any char".
It does.
> I know I saw some utility which would clean up correctly a file
> like this, but I don't remember the program name anymore. Try
> searching your man pages...
`col -b' will do this, and some other things besides.
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