[olug] Unix Tip: CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT

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			Unix Tip 1829 - January  3, 2003

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CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT 

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.


This tip generously supported by: ashutosh.varshney at st.com




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