On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:36 AM Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was wondering for a while now why I could not grep man pages anymore, > like 'man ftp|grep netrc', which was working a couple of OI versions > before. Try something like man ftp | col -x -b | grep netrc to strip the formatting. > Today I really got curious and found these weird constructions > in the man page output 'man ftp|od -tc' > > 0121460 \b ~ / \b / . \b . n \b n e \b e t \b > 0121500 t r \b r c \b c \n \n A \b A T \b T T > > That means: most of the characters are backspaced and written again ! > Checked a couple of man pages, most of them have these useless > sequences in them, so grepping man pages is mostly impossible now. > > Is this really intended, or produces some document tool this garbage > in the process of man page generation ? > -- > Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT > http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php > KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu > Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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