RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help
Peter Brigham MD
pmbrig at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 11:03:38 EST 2011
On Jan 8, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
> Try this:
> put "ls" into tCommand
> put shell("man " & tCommand & " | col -b") into fld 1
>
> That is how my Shell Command Help plugin does it.
>
> Phil Davis
Interesting. This trick is documented in the man page for "man" at the
bottom, though nowhere in the syntax list does it list the "col" or "-
b" parameters.
"To get a plain text version of a man page, without backspaces and
underscores, try
# man foo | col -b > foo.mantxt"
Thanks.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
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