Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Ed Morton (morton_at_lsupcaemnt.com)
Date: 05/21/04

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:34:39 -0500

Alan Connor wrote:

<snip>
> So I guess I'll have to write a sed script to remove the junk

In case it helps, here's my junk-removal sed script I've been using for
years to clean up man pages:

        sed -e 's/.^H//g' \
                 -e 's/^M//g' \
                 -e 's/^[//g' \
                 -e 's/^G//g' \

Regards,

Ed.

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