Hello Esther Thank you for the below. I'm replying on Lynne's behalf as she's had to go into work to cover for somebody.
All she wants to do is display the man page for a single command at the moment. I'm not sure whether the standard version of Lion would have it actually because it's only required on the server OS. But what she's trying to do is to get an output form the external command "/usr/bin/certtool". It's unfortunate that this has to be such a messy issue. You'd think that you could simply dump it to a text file. Thanks for the below; I will investigate for her. Gordon On 15 Aug 2011, at 12:14, Esther wrote: Hello Lynne, There are several ways to display man pages using scripts in Terminal, as summarized recently, for example, in this Mac OS X Hints page titled "Open formatted man pages in Preview from the command line": <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110511111211385> The man pages are also available at the Apple Developer's site, and if I want to refer someone to the man page definition in a post, I'll google the command to post a URL (e.g. "man <name of command> apple developer"). The complete man pages are available from: <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/index.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000894> However, if you don't want to create a script or put a definition in a ".profile" file in your account, try looking into Bwana, which is a freeware app that is Lion ready, and which will display the man pages in Safari. Here's the URL of a recent blog post, "Man Pages Made Easy", that gives examples of how to use Bwana, and also gives a link to the download location: http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/man-pages-made-easy/ Alternatively, there's a $2.99 app in the Mac App Store called "Man Page Viewer" that you can try. (Bwana should actually give you more capabilities, but this looks like it might be a simple solution). The other options either involve apps that I'm not sure are still supported under Lion, or else which I don't feel necessarily justify the price (e.g. the $25 price for Manpower in the Mac App Store). I haven't tried the options mentioned in these last two paragraphs myself, but they're what I would look into. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 14, 2011, at 23:35, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > Does anybody happen to know whether there is a way to dump the output of a > man page in terminal to a text file? I need to refer to the syntax of a > command but I would prefer to have it available in front of me as I work. So > what I thought I could do was to dump it to a text file and then print it > out. But the usual method doesn't seem to work on this occasion and it looks > as though the information on the command I'm looking at is a multi-page > command. > > Lynne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
