On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 10:54, wanjianming wrote: > I want to save the man information of "tar" .so I used the command " > man tar >tar.txt" <snip> > then how can I get the text in a file.what should I do? > Thanks You can remove the formatting/control chars with "col". e.g. man tar | col -b > tar.txt -- Greg -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list