On 01/03/2004 03:58 PM, John Richard Smith wrote:Yep that works too,
Well, man col tells me that it filters reverse and half reverse line feeds:I think I found what you want:
man mencoder | col -b | grep AC > output
I found this trick at the bottom of 'man man'.
HTH,
Paul
yep that works too.
Not sure what the | col -b is supposed to do for you ?
I think it works without it.
DESCRIPTION
Col filters out reverse (and half reverse) line feeds so the output is in
the correct order with only forward and half forward line feeds, and
replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible. This can be
useful in processing the output of nroff(1) and tbl(1).
The way I found to capture the output is man man | col -b > somefile; kwrite somefile
This leaves you with a file 'somefile', I found that kwrite (never use it) does not accept the dash like vi does. (man man | col -b > vi - )
Good luck Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man mencoder | grep AC3 > /root/Desktop/man.txt ; kwrite
/root/Desktop/man.txt
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
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don't know why I get the Xlib bit ?
but the output of man mencoder | grep AC3 get displayed nicely now. Neat.
thanks
John
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