Jul 092008
Trying to redirect a man page to a file using only the redirection command will produce many unreadable characters. Before redirecting the file, pipe the man page through the “col” command as show below.
# man rcs | col -bx > rcs.txt
Trying to redirect a man page to a file using only the redirection command will produce many unreadable characters. Before redirecting the file, pipe the man page through the “col” command as show below.
# man rcs | col -bx > rcs.txt