Re: outputting plain text man pages.

[Tony Nugent]

On Mon Jul 10 2000 at 00:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello,
>       Does anyone know of a way to get a plain text copy of a man page?
> Thank you.

This surely is an FAQ, but I wouldn't know which one to point you to
:-)

        man man | col -b

The "col -b" takes out the backspace-formatting stuff leaving it as
pure text.

If you want to print very nicely formatted man pages to a printer...

        man -t man | lpr

This is one of my bash functions...

        pman () { [ "$1" ] && man -t $1 | mpage -2 -P ; }

Cheers
Tony