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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mainelink.net!usenet From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@mainelink.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Unix Newbe needing help! Ascii man pages?? Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 10:44:26 -0400 Organization: The Computer Guy Lines: 14 Message-ID: <318A1BCA.4EEB@mainelink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: buxton-5.mainelink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Ok flame me.. So I don't know unix! Everybodys starts someplace! Is there a way to extract ALL man pages to pure ascii?? Currently I do: man -a <cmd> |& col -b > ~/asciiman/<cmd>.man I would like to automate this and extract all man pages to <cmd>.man Thanx to those that reply with usefull comments.. tcg@mainelink.net Please CC to email to.. thanks.