Re: Blank lines not being squeezed

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.fa.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: 26 Mar 2004 04:18:06 GMT

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 at 04:03 GMT, Fred Ma wrote:
>
> I was using various methods to turn a few man pages
> into compact text pages. In bash notation:
>
> man man | PAGER -s | col -bx >| TextFile.txt

man man | col -bx | tr -s '\n' >| TextFile.txt 

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