This ended up working for me. The command I ended up using was: # man bc | col -b > info.txt
Thank you. On Dec 18, 2:02 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Try this: > > man ls | col -b | lp > > On Dec 17, 8:27 pm, Iron_Man <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm hoping that there is an easy answer to this question. I am trying > > to figure out how to print out a man page for 'bc'. My first attempt > > at doing this was to use the command: > > $ man bc > info.txt > > > My problem with this command is that when I opened info.txt there were > > a number of formatting oddities. Is there a way to extract the man > > page to a text file, while keeping the formatting true to how you > > would see the man page in the console? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
