Printing 'man' pages

[columb]

From tiem to time I want to print out a man page. On my AIX systems i can use

man whatever | lp

or sometimes

man whatever | mail me@myserver

If I try either of these on my Linux boxes the formatting chars get in the way. I've tried setting my TERM to dumb and I've tried 'man man' to look for answers but I still get rubbish.

I'm sure there's a quick and simple fix but I can't find it. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Columb Healy

 

[Ghodmode]

man ls | col -b | lp

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-- Ghodmode

 

[columb]

Thanks Ghodmode
That works a treat.



Columb Healy