From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 06:11:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 06:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25123 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 06:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from J.G.E.Backus@tue.nl) Received: from asterix.urc.tue.nl [131.155.5.10] by mailhost.tue.nl (8.8.8) for id PAA12746 (ESMTP). Thu, 14 May 1998 15:11:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from jbackus@localhost by asterix.urc.tue.nl (8.8.8) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG id PAA00933. Thu, 14 May 1998 15:11:14 +0200 (MDT) Message-ID: <19980514151113.B27145@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:11:13 +0200 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man Pages to Text Files Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001501bd7f2a$a08b9c60$0200a8c0@fast1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.7 In-Reply-To: <001501bd7f2a$a08b9c60$0200a8c0@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:22:35AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:22:35AM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote: > I thought I once saw a command line which would > save a manpage to a file and remove the formatting > so you could have a nice text file use later. I've looked > through the handbook and don't seem to be able to find > it again. Can anyone help me with this? Try this: $ man man | col -b > man.txt $ more man.txt Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ jbackus@urc.tue.nl _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message