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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing out manual pages
Keywords: man
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.133357.14019@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 13:33:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr28.232157.24943@agate.berkeley.edu> <16958@chaph.usc.edu>
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In article <16958@chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes:
>>>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output
>>>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters?
>
>man foo | sed -e 's/_^H//g' -e 's/^[.//g'

 I usually just use:
   man foo | ul -tdumb > file

 If you have 'ul', and if the 'dumb' terminal type is defined in your
termcap or equivalent database as a totally dumb terminal, that should
format it without fancy control characters.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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