on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:06:06AM -0500, Aaron Hall (ahall@vitaphone.net) wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote:
>
> > is there any on-line version of the man pages?
> >
> > like for "man 5 interfaces"
> >
> > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control
> > chars that the text file was too hard to read.
>
> You can strip those control chars using 'col -b'. So, you can go:
>
> man 5 interfaces | col -b > interfaces.txt
You can also use the -T flag to specify a device for output. To output
a plain-ASCII page without control characters:
# text (not much different from Aaron's example, mostly just an
# example of using output directives)
$ man -Tascii 5 interfaces | col -b > interfaces.txt
# Postscript, nice for printing:
$ man -Tps 5 interfaces > interfaces.ps
# HTML, nice for browsing:
$ man -Thtml 5 interfaces > interfaces.html
You can also install the following Debian packages:
man2html: Turns a web-browser and an httpd-server into a man pager.
dwww: Read all on-line documentation via WWW
...which turns your system into a self-documenting webserver.
Peace.
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