Printing MAN pages

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Sep 8 09:37:01 PDT 2005


Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple
> redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded
> with control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to
> save the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It
> that is not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real 
> time?
>


And if you don't care about PostScript, (think this is in the FAQ or
fortune or some such);

man foo | col -bx > foo.txt

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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