Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Friday 01 October 2021 20:44:41 Fred wrote:

> On 10/1/21 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote:
> >
> > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt
> > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size
> > with lots more markup.
> >
> > Not what I want obviously.
> >
> > Thanks Larry.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>
> man command | col -b > command.txt
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
works fine, thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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