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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Lee Forrest wrote:
> This is from the sed&awk book. I haven't tested it
> because the only manpages I have are not in nroff.
>
> s/.^H//g
> s/^[9//g
> s/^[ ^I]*//g
> s/^I/ /g

This removes the non-printing characters or replaces them with spaces?
That will extract plain text, I think. Is there an easy way to use
ANSI escape sequences (for colors, bold, highlighting)? Perhaps a
separate script could handle those.

[troff]
> I wrote a crude script using sed that reformats them, and will be
> doing some work on it. Search "man2text1.sh" in the archives.

I tried it on a random manpage and it didn't work quite right,
although the output was mostly plain text. Perhaps this was a nroff or
groff script? I will experiment with what you have posted.

Thanks for sharing these sed scripts.

David