[X-Unix] What's the command?

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Sat Apr 17 12:56:05 PDT 2010


On 4/17/10,  Dave Higgins <dhiggins at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you want nicely formatted manpages, download bwana, and copy the browser
screen's output for the manpage you select to TextEdit.


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