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Or, if you're fine with reading it online, but don't want to run the man bash command each time (for whatever reason), and/or want to strip out the formatting characters once and for all, and/or want to use the search and other editing features of your favorite text editor on the contents of the man page, for faster navigation, copying-and-pasting snippets into scripts, etc., you can use this small shell script:

m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-...

Edit: Also check out the stuff about the word mu in the latter part of the post :)

parent vram22 7 years ago

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