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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



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