On 12/3/05, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yup. That's neater. Thanks.
So my current solution is to re-write man using a bash function which I've put in my .bash_profile file:
---
function man() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "No arguments provided." >&2
else
/usr/bin/man $* | col -b | less
fi
}
---
Cheers,
Daniel
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:13:03PM +1100, Daniel Bush wrote:
> Thanks Ken.
> I forgot about directly piping it like that.
> But I still got the colour in less. I was stumped for a while before trying
> my famous sed mangling-script again:
> man xyz | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | less
> and lo! crisp white manpages did materialise before me!
> Ugly hack though.
I think the standard thing to use is
col -b
It has roughly the same effect as that sed.
Yup. That's neater. Thanks.
So my current solution is to re-write man using a bash function which I've put in my .bash_profile file:
---
function man() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "No arguments provided." >&2
else
/usr/bin/man $* | col -b | less
fi
}
---
Cheers,
Daniel
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