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RE: [TCLUG:10868] Outputting man.



man topic | troff -a > foo

Or even "foo.txt" for cross platform goo.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Metzler [mailto:debian@pluto.twistedpair.net]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 13:44
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG:10868] Outputting man.


How can I output a man topic to a plain text file?

Of course, man > topic, outputs all the control characters.

I assume you need to pipe it through something.

-Brent


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