man pages in text file

serji · 10-18-2003, 08:27 AM

hello friends!

i need to copy the output of several man pages in a text file.
i know "man ls > /tmp/ls" is a wrong idea because the output of "man ls" is not in text format.
i ve tried to do "script /tmp/file" and then "man ls" but the result is the same.
i ve tried to do "cat /tmp/file | nano textfile" but nano does not support this.

what must i do???

thanks

zorrolero · 10-19-2003, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by serji
hello friends!

i need to copy the output of several man pages in a text file.
i know "man ls > /tmp/ls" is a wrong idea because the output of "man ls" is not in text format.
i ve tried to do "script /tmp/file" and then "man ls" but the result is the same.
i ve tried to do "cat /tmp/file | nano textfile" but nano does not support this.

what must i do???

thanks

Don't know how to directly solve your problem. But what about
man2html? If you've got an apache installed, try "apt-get install
man2html" and view the manpages in your browser...there you
could print them maybe to a file with your printer-dialog...?

greez

serji · 10-19-2003, 05:47 PM

thanks!

this man2html is great but i would like to print out the man pages in spanish language. is this possible with man2html?

zorrolero · 10-20-2003, 01:46 AM

imho that should be possible....
but you need "manpages-es" and maybe "manpages-es-extra"
to be installed!

greez

demmylls · 10-20-2003, 09:58 AM

where is the man file is in the drive?

lenlutz · 10-20-2003, 11:11 AM

see if this works (it used to, in the old unix days)

man ls | col -b > /tmp/foo

serji · 10-20-2003, 03:35 PM

ok. this is the solution. thank you.