Format MAN Output 1

[pavithra123]

Hi ,

When I use this command to get the output of the man command I get control characters in the file .

man zcat > zcat.txt.

The control characters are displayed like

N^HN^HN^HNA^HA^HA^HAM^HM^HM^HME^HE^HE^HE
compress, uncompress, zcat, compressdir, uncompressdir - compress and
expand data


So even If I use SED to take the control characters, The formatt would be different,

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

prem

 

[RanganathRamachandra]

man zcat | col -b > zcat.txt

 

[dblair]

man -T ascii >tofile

 

[dblair]

Sorry -
man -T ascii command >tofile

 

[pavithra123]

Hi Ramachandra,

I have tried what has been suggested and it works. Thanks once again.

Hi Dblair,

I remember when I used -T I got an error, I 'll let you know what error it was. Thanks again.

Best Regards
Prem