From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 22:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4922537B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA07443E65 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C002B8DF; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:22:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B7526A7124; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:22:21 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:22:21 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <20020902052221.GV785@k7.mavetju> References: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:12:30AM -0400, David Banning wrote: > I would like to do a "man ls > lsmanpagefile" but I find that is has > a lot of control characters in the text. Any idea how I can lose it? > > I really just want to search a man page for a specific term, so I don't have > to read the whole man page looking for the area I am interested in. You can use the cat-ted manpages: gzcat /usr/share/man/cat1/ls.1.gz Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message