man window of text to terminal

Tim Writer tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 17 19:50:06 UTC 2003


Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is there an easy way (ctrl-<n>) to have the displayed "window" of 'man'
> to be dumped to the terminal.
> 
> eg.
> $ man man
> [ctrl+d] 
> [ctrl+d]

[snip]

I'm not sure that I understand the question.  Does one of these do what you
want?

    man -P cat man
    man -P 'col -b' man

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