Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:23:12 +0300 (EET DST) From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org, alboissy@airfrance.fr Subject: Re: man's bold text Message-ID: <20000523112312.5805.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <20000523110144.58096.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dimitrios T. wrote: > I was looking at the man page of sh and I thought: let's dump this > thing into a text file and walk through it with my 'favourite text > editor' (vi?). Easy to search for a specific character/word/sentence, > no? Try using this to dump manpages: % man sh | sed -e 's/.^H//g' > sh.txt That ^H sign is actually a backspace.. a raw backspace character. Inserting this in your command line, is different from shell to shell but on my tcsh and bash at home, I can press Ctrl-V Ctrl-H and get it in there without a problem. Then, edit sh.txt with your favorite editor. - giorgos keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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