Unix Tip: CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT

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Unix Tip 2194 - January 3, 2006

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CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT

There can often be times when you want man pages in print, or to simply save them to text for something like HTML use. The common thing that people do is:

man lp > lp.txt

This will take the output of lp and put it to a file named lp.txt, but it will keep all the formatting in the document. In order to get rid of those characters, do the following:

man lp | col -b > lp.txt

Create the text file both ways naming one of them "lp2.txt" and do a "diff" on them. You'll see the difference then.

This tip generously supported by: ashutosh.varshney@st.com

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