Error of piping file for man command

[Ngoh Chean Siung]

Hi,

Normally I will use man command to check for the syntax that I not sure.

But when I key in man lvm > lvm.txt, some of the words inside this lvm.txt file will look strange. Why this problem occurs & is there a way to rectify it?

regards.

[KapilRaj]

Even I tried this before but the best way I found is to start logging in your terminal emulator to a text file and then do a man lvm. Stop logging and then view the text page

Regds,

Kaps

[Ngoh Chean Siung]

Hi,

Actually I want to print out the contents of lvm (man lvm). So, I plan to pipe the lvm content into a file and then use FTP to put into my local PC hard disk. Any solution?

regards

[Sanjay Yugal Kishore Ha · Accepted solution]

You can try the following-

man lvm | col -b > lvm.txt

On why this occurs-
manpages are normally formatted text written in nroff (or equivalent) format. They have reverse line-feeds and backspaces in them. They have to be removed if plain text is required.

-Sanjay

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Thanks Ngoh Chean Siung for this thread. This has answered the question lingering in my mind for ling time.

sks

[rmueller58]

why not just print it?

man |lp -d ??

[Ngoh Chean Siung]

Hi,

Actually all the printers that connected to our HP-UX server is dot matrix. So, I plan to ftp the man file into my pc and print it through laser printer.

Anyhow, thanks for your assist.

regards.