Quicktips - Saving man pages as text documents.
We’ve all agreed that Man pages are a wonderful utility and probably the best thing invented since air-sickness pills.
Now wouldn’t it be nice if you could save the output from a man command into a handy text document?
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Now I find out
After battling even to find man pages, I discovered a few months ago that they were available in an indexed form through Konqueror. That made a substantial difference when, as usual, I don't even know whether a page exists and what it is called.
Now I find I can easily get the text into an editor.
I don't share the writer's enthusiasm for man pages. Even when you find one, the omissions and assumptions are likely to make the information they do contain unuseable. So, you end up on a long search through the Linux manual, i.e. the worldwide web.
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