Re: Included Interface without documentation
Andrew Pham writes:
> What directory should I download the above man page source ?
> And what tool(s) can I use to extract the "real" text out of these pages
> without all the formats?
Download the latest tarball (man-pages-1.35.tar.gz), extract into a
temporary directory, then "cd man-pages-1.35".
>From there, run this command:
groff -t -mandoc -Tlatin1 file
to extract the text. Replace "file" with "man3/writev.3", for
example. I think you need to run from within the top-level directory
so that troff ".so" file includes will work correctly.
You can pipe the output into "less" or redirect into a file.
I usually use a bash shell function to look at uninstalled man pages:
in your .bashrc
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manl ()
{
$(grog -Tlatin1 "$@") | less
}
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Then I can just do: "manl man3/writev.3".
Dan
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