Documentation Systems

roff Systems

Man Page to Plain Text

10. How do I get a plain text man page without all that ^H^_ stuff?

Output Complex documents with equations and tables.

groff -t -e -mandoc -Tascii /usr/share/man/man1/rsync.1 | col -bx > ~/docs/unix/rsync.txt

Simple Manpage To Plain Text

man rsync | col -bx > rsync.txt