Re: stripping display sequences

["Denis A. Doroshenko" <cyxob@tipas.lt>]

you may use "sed -e 's:^H_::g' -e 's:.^H::g'" in pipe to do the trick,
that ^H is backspace (^V^H in pdksh command line)...
there's also one utility doing this, but i can't remember its name...

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cyxob

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Matthew Patton wrote:
> 
> how do I get a really plain man page? one that has no highlighting
> whatsoever? cat foo seems to display it that way but I can't seem to
> strip the actual sequences from the file.
> 
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