Man page question

[dictum9]

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?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

you can try col -b,

# man vi |col -b |more

Hope this helps.

regds

[Rick Garland]

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

[OldSchool]

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"

[dictum9]

Thank you. I used

export PAGER="col -b | less"

[Bill Hassell]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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

Simply as,

# man | col -b | more

will give what you want.

-Muthu

[RAC_1]

I use it as follows.

man â somethingâ | col â b | ssp | expand

[Arunvijai_4]

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