bash

jrfk2 · 01-17-2007, 11:58 AM

I am routing the output from bash to someplace other than the shell, and I wanted to know if there is a bash option to have bash spit out the response unformatted ...

for example if by hand you did a

man bash > bash.txt

then vi bash.txt .. you see all the formatting stuff I don't want ...

hoping bash has such an option so I don't have to try to pull them out myself ...

Matir · 01-17-2007, 12:46 PM

This would be specific to each application: it's man that's spitting out the formatting. Or you could probably write a filter script to remove any non-printable characters.

colucix · 01-17-2007, 01:01 PM

In the case of man command, you can do

Code:

man bash | col -b > bash.txt

see man col for details.