Marc Chantreux: > > > * is there a way to ask man to deliver pure (non-formatted) text ? > > Pipe its output through "col -b". > > what is the gain of using col over fmt ?
It's the designated tool for the job. That fmt also happens to replace sequences character1-backspace-character2 with character2 is more of a lucky coincidence. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
