Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:16:19 +0100 From: Benjamin A'Lee <bma@bmalee.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man pages in plain text - how to? Message-ID: <20060609191619.GB69171@niamhe.bmalee.eu> In-Reply-To: <4489C57A.40109@xxiii.com> References: <4489C57A.40109@xxiii.com>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:14PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text? I want
> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other
> special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting
> the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do
> back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print
> capabilities than that, IIRC.)
'col -b' will strip out the bold effects etc.
bma
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