MAN Pages..can I export to a text file?

phil1076 · 10-26-2001, 01:17 PM

If I wabnt to print out a MAN page, is there a way to export it to a standard ASCII text file?

d3funct · 10-26-2001, 01:24 PM

you should be able to print a manpage as it exists already. I believe a manpage is already PS compliant and just troff'd for formatting. You should be able to do something like "man dd |lpr" and get a manpage printout of the 'dd' command.

acid_kewpie · 10-26-2001, 03:51 PM

that sounds about right to me.

if you DO want it as a text file just use

man ls > ls.man

DISCLAIMER: ls is NOT, i repeat NOT the only linux command.
Thankyou.
:-)

linuxcool · 10-26-2001, 09:55 PM

Try this man lilo | col -bx >lilo.txt

phil1076 · 10-29-2001, 08:11 AM

Thanks guys