raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) (04/29/91)
How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? Thanks in advance, Raymond Yee (raymond@cavebear.berkeley.edu)
c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: >How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output >in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? nroff -man foo.man -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |
pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad) (04/29/91)
c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) wrote: >In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: >>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output >>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > nroff -man foo.man Doesn't work for me. I still get _^H's. nroff -man -Tman foo.man | sed 's/_^H//g' will get most of them... nroff -man -Tman foo.man | col -b will get all of them, if you have col. -- Paul Falstad pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu And on the roads, too, vicious gangs of KEEP LEFT signs! If Princeton knew my opinions, they'd have expelled me long ago.
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu>, raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: |> How do I print out output from the 'man' program If your system's man supports the "-t" option, and is correctly configured to use a typesetter that will work on the printers at your site, then "man -t program" should send the man page to the printer. If your system's man does not support the "-t" option, then get a version of man that does :-). -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710
jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) (04/29/91)
c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: >In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: >>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output >>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? > > nroff -man foo.man > That gives you the same output as "the 'man' program" would. I think what the original poster wanted was a way to get rid of the junk that nroff inserts to do underlining and half-line spacing. You can do that with a simple sed script: man foo | sed -e 's/_^H//g' -e 's/^[.//g' where ^H is the backspace character and ^[ is the ESCape character; you can type these to the shell by typing "control-V control-H" and "control-V ESC", respectively (modulo "stty lnext ..."; control-V is the default.) If you want to put this command in a shell script, control-V also works in 'vi'; in emacs, I think it's control-Q but don't quote me on that. That should do the trick. --jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu itp
rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) (04/29/91)
From article <69425@asparagus.Princeton.EDU>, by pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad): >In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: >>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output >>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > nroff -man -Tman foo.man | col -b > > will get all of them, if you have col. And if you don't, you can get it from the freely distributable BSD stuff. On uunet the files are in ~/bsd-sources/usr.bin/col. -- Roger A. Cornelius rac@sherpa.UUCP uunet!sherpa!rac
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/29/91)
In article <16958@chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) writes: >c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: >>In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes: >>>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output >>>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? > >man foo | sed -e 's/_^H//g' -e 's/^[.//g' I usually just use: man foo | ul -tdumb > file If you have 'ul', and if the 'dumb' terminal type is defined in your termcap or equivalent database as a totally dumb terminal, that should format it without fancy control characters. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> (04/29/91)
From the keyboard of raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee): :How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output :in a file without having all the extraneous control characters? Well, if you are using my man program (grap w/ anon ftp off convex.com in /pub/man.shar.Z) then 'man -t topic' will invoke troff for you appropriately, and 'man -D topic > outfile' will give you an output file with neither escapes nor other control characters. --tom
don@muff.webo.dg.com (Don Perkins) (04/30/91)
Try: %man -Tlp commandname > commandname.ls
ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) (04/30/91)
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > >man foo | sed -e 's/_^H//g' -e 's/^[.//g' > > I usually just use: > man foo | ul -tdumb > file > > If you have 'ul', and if the 'dumb' terminal type is defined in your > termcap or equivalent database as a totally dumb terminal, that should > format it without fancy control characters. How peculiar. I just tried that, and the ul that I have (the same as the one under bsd-sources on uunet, I think) converts the .^H into carriage return followed by the line to overstrike it with to get the same effect. Probably not what the original poster wanted, but useful nonetheless :-) -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)
woody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow) (04/30/91)
>|> How do I print out output from the 'man' program
What about man <subject> | tee <filename>
or to print it direct:
man <subject> | tee | lpr
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