try this:
man ls| col -b >ls.txt
or you could print this :
man ls| col -b| lpr
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Murgoci Ionut - SysAdm, Computer HighSchool "Gr. Moisil"
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PS: "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Antony Stace wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> How can I convert a unix man page to plain text? ie
>
> man ls > /tmp/ls_man
>
> produces a file /tmp/ls_man with lots of formatting code in it. I want
> to get ride of this formatting code.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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