From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 19:28:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B23EF16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:28:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E94A43D90 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:28:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077AC5DDD; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HXAFBTsMNSfB; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C695CB5; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4489C57A.40109@xxiii.com> References: <4489C57A.40109@xxiii.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <742E08F8-C2AB-4877-BFE7-1EB7803C1B7A@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 To: Wayne X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man pages in plain text - how to? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:28:18 -0000 On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, 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.) env TERM=dumb PAGER=ul man man ...seemed to work OK for me, compare this to not specifying a pager when you redirect the output to a file. Reading "man grotty" might give you additional things to tweak... -- -Chuck