Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:57:37 -0600 (MDT) From: bsd@xtremedev.com To: "M.T." <mbsd@pacbell.net> Cc: Lee <sfpnkpu@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <20020902185621.S9698-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> In-Reply-To: <20020902175205.K69871-100000@atlas.home>
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man pages are searchable as is. Ie., man ls Then hit /, and type the term you are looking for. Same as in vi/ed. On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, M.T. wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Lee wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, 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. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > sed can produce a readable, printable manpage-file: > > % man <whatever> | sed s/.\CTRL-V CTRL-H//g > <whatever>.txt > > has sed remove any charater followed by CTRL-H , and the > > CTRL-H itself. The CTRL-V escapes the CTRL-H on the command > > line(no space between the two). > > the output could be piped to grep <keyword> for further > > filtering. > > Or use "col -b". See col(1) -- it was created for this very purpose :) > > $.02, > /Mikko > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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