[X-Unix] What's the command?

Dave Higgins dhiggins at mchsi.com
Sat Apr 17 10:05:43 PDT 2010


On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> And after you find the name of the tool, new to you. . .
> 
> man thetool  |  col -bx  >  thetool.txt
> 
> And open thetool.txt in your favorite text editor.

Cool. I've already got a custom "pman" that I adapted from a post I found somewhere a while back. It saves a nicely formatted man page as .ps then opens it in Preview.

This. too, will make a nice addition for when text only is needed.


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