[99287] in RedHat Linux List
RE: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale E Anglin)
Fri Nov 13 09:30:22 1998
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:25:14 -0500
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From: "Dale E Anglin" <deangl@most.fw.hac.com>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Vidiot [mailto:brown@ftms.COM]
>>>Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 10:25 am
>>>
>>>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?
Hi,
You might try using 'col -b' to strip the highlighting from the file as in:
$ man ls | col -b > ls.man.txt
FWIW - Hope this helps.
Dale Anglin :-) | Raytheon Systems Company
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