From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 23 7:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c29s237-h4t49.chello.no (c29s237-h4t49.chello.no [212.186.237.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC69D37B69C for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paalsom@c29s237-h4t49.chello.no) Received: (from paalsom@localhost) by c29s237-h4t49.chello.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA01450; Tue, 23 May 2000 16:10:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from paalsom) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:10:09 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Sommerhein?= To: "Dimitrios T." Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I've tried them all. They all work :) Message-ID: <20000523161009.A1150@chello.no> Reply-To: pms@chello.no References: <20000523133922.31498.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000523133922.31498.qmail@hotmail.com>; from midios3@hotmail.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:39:22PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:39:22PM +0000, Dimitrios T. wrote: > > >keramida@ceid.upatras.gr suggested: > >% man sh | sed -e 's/.^H//g' > sh.txt Alternatively you could use man sh | col -b > sh.txt which produces the exact same result (verified by using diff). To read a man page into a document from within vi use :r! man sh | col -b which is pretty handy when you want to include extracts from manpages like the following from col(1) NAME col - filter reverse line feeds from input [...] -b Do not output any backspaces, printing only the last character written to each column position. -- Pål Sommerhein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message