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Suppose
if you wanted to print the Unix man pages, it has to be copied to a single
file. Normally man pages displays page by page. You can easily open the man
pages in vi editor using combination following commands.
This
command will open the cat command man page in vi editor.
man
cat |ul -i|tr '\!' ' ' |vi -
Below
command will write the cat command man page to cat.txt file.
man
cat |ul -i|tr '\!' ' ' >cat.txt
where
ul command
convert underscore, ^[[1m, ^[(B to readable format. See some examples on ul
command below.
$
echo $'h\b_i\b_n\b_t\b_s\b_'
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$
echo $'h\b_i\b_n\b_t\b_s\b_' | ul
hints
$
echo $'h\b_i\b_n\b_t\b_s\b_' | ul -i
hints
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tr command
is used for translation.
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