Re: man-to-text filter
It's crude, but 'man -t manpage | pstotext' will do this (there are
probably better ways using groff, but this comes to mind).
Bob
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from
> man into plain text?
>
> e.g:
> $ man man | magic-filter
> $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8
> $ man --magic-switch man
>
> Thank you.
>
> Marc Mongeon
>
>
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