On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-03-25, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > That didn't work for me. Does it work for you? > > I also tried manually running groff using the -c flag, and that > didn't work either. > > [Actually, I didn't edit /etc/man.conf -- I copied it somewhere > else and edited that file, then pointed man to the modified > file using the -C option.]
Yes, it works for me. Without the -c option it put partial ANSI codes all over, but with the -c added to man.conf piping it through col -bf produces clean plain text output.
