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man bash | col -b
2009-09-10 00:45:27
User: suxer
Functions: bash col man
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bash man page

Display man page in plain text

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man perlcheat | col -b > perlcheat.txt
2009-07-26 10:16:37
User: recursiverse
Functions: col man
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save a manpage to plaintext file
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man ls | col -b > ~/Desktop/man_ls.txt
2009-06-13 11:49:33
User: vigo
Functions: col ls man
Tags: man macosx terminal col
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Convert "man page" to text file

You can convert any UNIX man page to .txt

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cat typescript | perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' | col -b > typescript-processed
2009-05-28 21:02:17
User: unixmonkey3987
Functions: cat col perl
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'Fix' a typescript file created by the 'script' program to remove control characters

attribution: Thanks to repellent on perlmonks.org

source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=684459

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alias vb='vim ~/.bashrc; source ~/.bashrc'
2009-03-02 21:01:49
User: haivu
Functions: alias col groff man
Tags: Shell programming bash csh
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Alias to edit and source your .bashrc file

Place the line above in your ~/.bahsrc file. Now every time you issue the 'vb' command, you invoke the vim editor to edit it, then source it so the changes take effect immediately.

Notes:

* This mechanism is not working well if your .bashrc contains commands that should not be sourced more than once.

* This trick also work for your csh or tclsh users: place the following line in your ~/.cshrc file:

alias vc 'vim ~/.cshrc; source ~/.cshrc

Thank you adzap for pointing out the missing quote

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nroff -u0 -Tlp -man /usr/openwin/man/man1/Xsun.1 | col -x | less
2009-02-07 18:40:43
User: mnikhil
Functions: col
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Use nroff to view the man pages

Using nroff , it is possible to view the otherwise garbled man page with col command.

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