Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/21/04

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    Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:44:30 GMT

    On Fri, 21 May 2004 20:08:02 GMT, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
    >
    >
    > On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:34:39 -0500, Ed Morton <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> 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.
    >>
    >
    > Yes indeed, Ed. This is my lucky day, eh?
    >
    > The only thing it misses (on MY manpages) is a a <AD> (reverse video in
    > less; ed (the *other* ed :-) with the "l" command reported it to be \255)
    >
    > Ascii tells me this is:
    >
    > ASCII 10/13 is decimal 173, hex ad, octal 255, bits 10101101: meta--
    >
    > It's used as a hyphen before the $ on a lot of lines. Ascii usually
    > give a ^[A-Z] for non-printing characters, but not here. Its tables
    > don't go above 127 either.
    >
    > I can live with it, but it would it would be nice to get rid of them too.
    > I tried 's/\\255//' but it didn't work. Any ideas?
    >
    > No clue in man{ed,sed,vi,regex}.
    >
    > Thanks, Ed.
    >
    >
    > AC
    >

    col -b does the trick, but I am STILL curious about the above.

    AC

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