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Re: man sed > temp (to edit man page)?
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Chris Breemer <[log in to unmask]>
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Chris Breemer <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:24:03 +0100
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Brad Kirchner wrote:

> When I do:
> man sed > temp
> ...I get lots of garbage when I open it up in vi.

man formats the text according to your current TERM setting, even
when you redirect it into a file. You can temporarily pretend to be
a dumb terminal by saying

        TERM=dumb man sed > temp

this should not give you any funky characters in the file.

Having said that - just tried it with the default TERM=hp2392a and
it does not give me any funny chars either.. Oh well ;-)

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Best regards,

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