On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: Converting unix man
pages to plain text:
> Well, man -a |col -b was as far as I had discovered, but I see
>
> ul -t dumb
>
> is pretty neat. |expand |uniq to get rid of the tabs and blank
> lines. Thanks. That is now /usr/local/bin/unman Makes it easier when
> I have to quote from a man page in email.
>
Yes it is, however it does not get rid of "blank lines".
ul -t dumb | sed '/^$/d'
That gets rid of blank lines.
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