3.27.2006

Remove formatting from man pages

To remove the formatting from man pages so that you can redirect them to text and view in vi or another editor you can create a shell alias and associated script:
 
alias mantext='~/bin/mantext.ksh'
 
mantext.ksh:
man $1 | sed -e 's/.//g'
 
Now use mantext instead of man when redirecting a man page to a file.
 

1 comment:

Felipe said...

you are replacing all charcters (.) with nothing, essentially just creating totally blank output.