On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:54:28PM +0800, wanjianming wrote: > I want to save the man information of "tar" .so I used the command " > man tar >tar.txt" > but when I opened the file using "vi tar.txt" > it can't be read anymore .it looks as following : > TAR(1) > TAR(1) > > > > N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE > tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility > > S^HSY^HYN^HNO^HOP^HPS^HSI^HIS^HS > t^Hta^Har^Hr [ -^H- ] A^HA > -^H--^H-c^Hca^Hat^Hte^Hen^Hna^Hat^Hte^He > -^H--^H-c^Hco^Hon^Hnc^Hca^Hat^Hte^Hen^Hna^Hat^Hte^He |^H| c^Hc > > " > then how can I get the text in a file.what should I do? > Thanks There are various ways to do this , but it looks like this works well enough to give it a try. Open the file in vi. And while sitting at line 1 type :1,$s/^V^H.//g The ^V and ^H are thew ctrl characters. Then save the file. It seems to work but I am not sure it works at every point in the file. This probably can be automated using sed or tr. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
