On Fri Jun 16 2000 at 08:48, Antony Stace wrote:
> How can I convert a unix man page to plain text? ie
>
> man ls > /tmp/ls_man
>
> produces a file /tmp/ls_man with lots of formatting code in it. I want
> to get ride of this formatting code.
As someone else has suggested:
man ls | col -b > /tmp/ls.txt
If you want a very nicely formatted man page:
man -t ls | lpr
Even better:
man -t ls | mpage -2 -P
Cheers
Tony
