[olug] Unix Tip: CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT

[Quinn Coldiron]

Or, on Linux I use man -t man_page to get a nice formatted (Postscript)
output.  Redirect to file or to ps2pdf for a nice PDF.

Quinn


On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 12:55, Unix Guru Universe wrote:
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> CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT 
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> There can often be times when you 
> want man pages in print, or to 
> simply save them to text for 
> something like HTML use.  The 
> common thing that people do is:
> 
> man lp > lp.txt
> 
> This will take the output of lp 
> and put it to a file named lp.txt, 
> but it will keep all the formatting 
> in the document. In order to get rid
> of those characters, do the 
> following:
> 
> man lp | col -b > lp.txt
> 
> Create the text file both ways 
> naming one of them "lp2.txt" and 
> do a "diff" on them. You'll see the 
> difference then.
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> This tip generously supported by: ashutosh.varshney at st.com
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Nebraska Methodist Hospital
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