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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:58:48 -0400
From:      Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>
Subject:   Re: Formatting man pages -> txt file
Message-ID:  <20071012065701.8BC3.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071012071407.GB4636@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>
References:  <20071012071407.GB4636@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>

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On October 12, 2007 at 03:14AM Alain G. Fabry wrote:


> I'd like to get a man page in .txt format.
> 
> What I tried was "man man > man.txt", but this gives me the man pages with many control char.
> 
> How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file?


	man man | col -bx > man.txt


-- 
Gerard



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