Have you looked at: man col ? (Especially for the -b option...)
And, for that matter, have you looked at man col | cat -vet | less ? Alternatively, have you tried using any web searches on this topic? Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM Marc Chantreux <marc.chantr...@renater.fr> wrote: > > hello, > > > Try the mandoc manual page, man is just a front-end to it. Both > > man/mandoc support -T option and you can specify ascii/utf8 to get the > > formatted page but it still adds all escape sequences. > > indeed, that's why i asked > > > The documentation > > says to pipe the output to col -b to suppress them (I think what you did > > with the alternative fmt command). > > i felt dumb reading this as i gave a try to the mandoc man. but i just > double checked: > > man mandoc|col -b|grep -w col > > gives me nothing. can you please tell me what documentation explicitly refers > to col -b? i can probably learn more from it. > > regards > marc >
