Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 17:54:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "M.T." <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Lee <sfpnkpu@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> Cc: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <20020902175205.K69871-100000@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.1020902183037.21449D-100000@scfn>
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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
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