On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:13:03PM +1100, Daniel Bush wrote: > Thanks Ken. > I forgot about directly piping it like that. > But I still got the colour in less. I was stumped for a while before trying > my famous sed mangling-script again: > man xyz | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | less > and lo! crisp white manpages did materialise before me! > Ugly hack though.
I think the standard thing to use is col -b It has roughly the same effect as that sed. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html