>>I want to save the man information of "tar" .so I used the command " >>man tar >tar.txt" What you need to do is to use this feature( which I learned from this list) man tar | col -b > tar.txt Cheers, .^. Mun Heng, Ow /V\ H/M Engineering /( )\ Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^ DID : 03-7870 5168 The Linux Advocate -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list