From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 23 5: 7:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr (diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E42DE37B9B6 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 05:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 5806 invoked by uid 1465); 23 May 2000 11:23:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20000523112312.5805.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:23:12 +0300 (EET DST) To: "Dimitrios T." Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org, alboissy@airfrance.fr Subject: Re: man's bold text In-Reply-To: <20000523110144.58096.qmail@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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