[99216] in RedHat Linux List
Re: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Thu Nov 12 22:11:58 1998
To: filioda@videotron.com
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: message-id <852566BA.0054251A.00@notmtl11.videotron.com>
of Thu, Nov 12 10:21:22 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:07:23 +1000
From: Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au>
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On Thu Nov 12 1998 at 10:21, filioda@videotron.com wrote:
> Can someone please tell me if there is a utility that will strip the
> formatting from man pages/files and create a standard text file?
man manpage | col -b > manpage.txt
It's the col -b that is the magic ingredient.
While I'm at it...
I hope this lot is useful... I haven't used these in a while, so beware -
they'll need to be tested and modified.
Hmm... these have been taken from my old config files from a SunOS box...
the troff ones should be modified for groff, eg: "man -t $t | mpage -2 -P"
or whatever you want to do with it.
There's no error checking - they all needs a parameter, so something like
this would be useful:
[ -z $1 ] && echo "hey stupid, feed me a parameter for lunch!" && return 1
function fman() {
man $1 | col -b > $1.man ; }
function lman () {
tbl $1 | nroff -man | "$PAGER" ; }
function flman () {
tbl $1 | nroff -man | col -b > $1.man ; }
function lms () {
nroff -ms $1 | "$PAGER" ; }
function mann () {
man $1|awk "NR<=8||(NR%66>=8&&NR%66<=60)" | col -b | uniq > $1.man ; }
function mans () {
man $1|awk "NR<=8||(NR%66>=8&&NR%66<=60)" | col -b | uniq ; }
function manl () {
man $1|awk "NR<=8||(NR%66>=8&&NR%66<=60)" | uniq | "$PAGER" ; }
function pman () {
tbl $1 | troff -t -man -Tman | lpr -t ; }
Cheers
Tony
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