[PLUG] man to text

Michael Montagne montagne at boora.com
Wed Apr 17 15:25:08 UTC 2002


That's beautiful.  Simple elegant.  Nice use of classic unix
methodology.  Thank you.  Now I can use vim to view and select pieces of
man pages for reference.

>On 16/04/02, from the brain of Brian Horan tumbled:

> man manpage | col -b > textfile
> 
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote:
> > How do I take a man manpage and convert it to text?
> 
> -- 
> Brian Horan
> bhoran at hexdev.com
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