On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape > sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt > doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI > color escape sequences. > > grotty apparently outputs ANSI color escape sequences > regardless of whether or not the output is a tty and regardless > of the TERM setting. > > Who decided that everyting in the friggin' world was an ANSI > color crt even if it's not a tty and TERM isn't set?
Edit /etc/man.conf and add -c to the commandline for TROFF, NROFF and JNROFF. Then "man program | col -bf" or your method of choice should work. There is a note in the man.conf comments about it.
