Re: man-to-text filter

1999-04-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? [prompt]$ man somesubject |col -b > somesubject.txt -Mitch

Re: man-to-text filter

1999-04-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's crude, but 'man -t manpage | pstotext' will do this (there are probably better ways using groff, but this comes to mind). Bob On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ m

Re: man-to-text filter

1999-04-28 Thread David Z. Maze
Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from MM> man into plain text? zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz |nroff -man nroff -man /usr/man/man1/man.1 -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug,

RE: man-to-text filter

1999-04-28 Thread lusu
On 28-Apr-99 Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ man man | magic-filter > $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 > $ man --magic-switch man > Try this: $ zcat /usr/man/man1/bash.1.gz | nroff -man | col -b or, if the