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adamlau

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 418

{SOLVED] Terminal (xterm, xfterm4) Exports Symbol Characters?

locale -a shows:

C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

When performing e.g. 'man mount > ~/Desktop/mount' the mount file contains square, illegible symbols. How to resolve?

Last edited by adamlau (2009-02-06 13:04:17)

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: {SOLVED] Terminal (xterm, xfterm4) Exports Symbol Characters?

Those are probably just escape sequences that have leaked into the output.

From the man manpage:

To get a plain text version of  a  man  page,  without  backspaces  and
       underscores, try
              
         # man foo | col -b > foo.mantxt

Documentation ftw.

-dav7

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adamlau

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 418

Re: {SOLVED] Terminal (xterm, xfterm4) Exports Symbol Characters?

So man man was the answer . Thanks! This quick alias function should do the trick:

alias mn='manout'
manout () {
   man $1 | col -b > /tmp/$1 && mousepad /tmp/$1 & exit
}

Last edited by adamlau (2009-02-07 00:40:52)

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