topic Re: Man page question in Operating System - HP-UX

Man page question

dictum9 — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:29:33 GMT

This is on 11x
How do I turn off that annoying inverse-color highlighting of key words when I run the man page on a command?

What package does it use, nroff, troff, groff? Can I use some option with man turn highlighting off?

Re: Man page question

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:38:31 GMT

Hi,

you can try col -b,

# man vi |col -b |more

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: Man page question

Rick Garland — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:48:12 GMT

With the 'col -b' switch you can send the man page(s) to printer and it will be clean as well
- no inverse type...

Re: Man page question

OldSchool — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:51:34 GMT

You can do either of the following in your profile:

export PAGER=pg (changes program used to paginate output to pg)

or

export PAGER="col -b | more"

Re: Man page question

dictum9 — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:53:16 GMT

Thank you. I used

export PAGER="col -b | less"

Re: Man page question

Bill Hassell — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:58:23 GMT

Here's a way to eliminate extra blank lines, eliminate the "Hewlett-Packard" page footer and drop the fancy fonts:

man \
| grep -v ' Hewlett-Packard Company' \
| col -b \
| ssp

Re: Man page question

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:47:24 GMT

You can use col -b to remove all formatting with *roff.

Simply as,

# man | col -b | more

will give what you want.

-Muthu

Re: Man page question

RAC_1 — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:53:16 GMT

I use it as follows.

man â somethingâ | col â b | ssp | expand

Re: Man page question

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:57:08 GMT

You can use col -b, # man man |col -b

If the -b option is given, col assumes that the output device in use is not capable of backspacing. In this case, if two or more characters are to appear in the same place, only the last one read is output.

-Arun