strange characters when routing man page to txt file

DJOtaku · 05-14-2005, 08:39 PM

I wanted to print out a man page so I did

man Eterm > Eterm_manual.txt

It put the man page into the file, but there were a bunch of ^H characters everywhere. Why did this happen and how can I eliminate it from occurring?

crabboy · 05-14-2005, 09:48 PM

Found your solution here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q10.html

Basically:

Code:

man Eterm | col -bx > Eterm_manual.txt

jschiwal · 05-14-2005, 11:06 PM

If what you want to do is print the man-page, your could use the -Tps or -Tdvi options.
man -Tdvi Eterm >Eterm.dvi
man -Tps Eterm >Eterm.ps

If your man command doesn't have the -T option then use
man -t Eterm >Eterm.ps instead.

DJOtaku · 05-15-2005, 01:03 AM

thanks, the latter one worked just fine