From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Sep  2 17:57:51 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FB437B401
	for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon,  2 Sep 2002 17:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97DC43E6E
	for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon,  2 Sep 2002 17:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from bsd@xtremedev.com)
Received: from xtremedev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65])
	by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D801370601; Mon,  2 Sep 2002 18:57:37 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:57:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: bsd@xtremedev.com
X-X-Sender: dave@Amber.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
In-Reply-To: <20020902175205.K69871-100000@atlas.home>
Message-ID: <20020902185621.S9698-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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