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CommAdmin
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‎01-29-2004 04:49 AM

‎01-29-2004 04:49 AM

man topic > filename without the highlites?

I want to generate a man command output to a text file without all the 'highlighted' text commands. Simply, how do you do that.

If I use ie; $man - expect > expectman
then; more expectman
More displays all the highlighting. You can see it's there by doing 'vi expectman'.

How do I get rid of those annoying highlites.
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Sridhar Bhaskarla
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‎01-29-2004 04:56 AM

‎01-29-2004 04:56 AM

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Re: man topic > filename without the highlites?

Hi,

I use the command 'man man |col -bx > /tmp/man.out'.

-Sri
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Pete Randall
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‎01-29-2004 04:57 AM

‎01-29-2004 04:57 AM

Re: man topic > filename without the highlites?

Mark,

Try this:

man 5 regexp |col -b | expand > regexp.man


Pete

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