Re: man pages in plain text - how to?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote: snip On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote: Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) snip The easiest way to do it, I believe, is with col . (Just try 'man col' to check all the options.) I have used 'man topic | col -b' to see the man page for topic with all the egregious stuff removed, and I just append to the pipeline 'topic.man' if I want to save it. Or, e.g.: gzcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | nroff -man -Tascii | colcrt Man is just calling nroff (unless there's a pre-cat-ed page). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man pages in plain text - how to?
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote: snip On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote: Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) snip The easiest way to do it, I believe, is with col . (Just try 'man col' to check all the options.) I have used 'man topic | col -b' to see the man page for topic with all the egregious stuff removed, and I just append to the pipeline 'topic.man' if I want to save it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man pages in plain text - how to?
Hi, Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) -Thanks, Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man pages in plain text - how to?
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:14PM -0400, Wayne wrote: Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) 'col -b' will strip out the bold effects etc. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee - http://bmalee.eu/~bma/ Secretary, TermiSoc - http://termisoc.org/ It couldn't be me and be her in between without you - The Cure, Inbetween Days pgp167luFc18b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: man pages in plain text - how to?
On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote: Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) env TERM=dumb PAGER=ul man man ...seemed to work OK for me, compare this to not specifying a pager when you redirect the output to a file. Reading man grotty might give you additional things to tweak... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man pages in plain text - how to?
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:14PM -0400, Wayne wrote: Hi, Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid thing still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.) % man man | more the / command in more/less is a grep-like search. But if you really really want plainest of plain text then man -t will generate postscript, pipe it into ps2ascii (in the Ghostscript port) and the result will be long lines but very plain text. With proper print filters installed man -t man | lpr produces beautiful printed man pages. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
