I think that the right way to do is:
man rpm |colcrt > rpm.txt
Will do the magic,if you want to print do the same command but send the
commando for your printer device likeL
man rpm | colcrt > /dev/lp0
>I am not in linux, but I believe there is a -t or -T that will process the
>files, but I don't know what the output looks like before printing. I
>typically do "man -t ldapd | lpr -PHP882C" and it prints the information
>directly. I think the filter is groff if I remember correctly, does anyone
>know if it adds printer commands or just strips the special chars out.
>
>Chad
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Lazor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:59 PM
>To: RedHat Mailing List
>Subject: how to get text only man pages?
What would be a quick way to get text only man pages? The man command
formats output by including extra characters to pecify
bold, font color, etc. If I pipe the output to a text file, I end up with
undisplayable and unprintable characters throughout the document.
Is there
a way to tell man not to do this or at least filter the unprintable or
undisplayable characters?
Thanks =)
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