Unix Tip: VI MAN PAGES

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Unix Tip 3448 - July 19, 2015

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VI MAN PAGES

Try saving a man page to
a file for viewing with vi.

You will see a whole bunch
of control characters.

How can you save a man page
in a form readable by vi?

$ man ls | col -b > readable_file.txt


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