Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:40:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Lee <sfpnkpu@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get an ascii man page Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.1020902183037.21449D-100000@scfn> In-Reply-To: <20020902011230.A5769@skytrackercanada.com>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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