Generating printable redirection output with ">"

[David]

On 4/24/2010 10:46 PM, Dick Roark wrote:
> I am trying to generate printable output by using
> 
>      man k lpr > lprman.txt
> 
> This works but the output contains unwanted characters generated by text
> which was "bold" in the original output.  How can I prevent these
> confusing characters from being generated?


Use this script.


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#!/bin/bash
## INSTALLATION:
## MAKE A FILE mancon AND PLACE IT IN THE /USR/BIN DIRECTORY, YOU MUST
BE ROOT TO DO THIS ## CHMOD IT TO 700 - * CHOWN TO YOUR USERNAME - *
(chown user:user /usr/bin/mancon) ## TYPE IN mancon AT THE TERMINAL AND
YOU SHOULD SEE "What is the man page?" ## ANY QUESTIONS VISIT
HTTP://CODE-HEADS.COM

echo "CodeHeads Man Page Conversion"
read -p "What is the man page?? " M
if [[ $M == "" ]]
then
echo "Sorry need a MAN page to convert"
else
man $M | col -b > ~/$M.txt
echo; echo "Your file has been saved as $M.txt in your home directory"
fi
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Print the result.

-- 


  David

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