Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:22:21 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <20020902052221.GV785@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020902052221.GV785>