<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:36 AM Udo Grabowski (IMK) <<a href="mailto:udo.grabowski@kit.edu">udo.grabowski@kit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I was wondering for a while now why I could not grep man pages anymore,<br>
like 'man ftp|grep netrc', which was working a couple of OI versions<br>
before. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Try something like<br><br>man ftp | col -x -b | grep netrc<br><br></div><div>to strip the formatting.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Today I really got curious and found these weird constructions<br>
in the man page output 'man ftp|od -tc'<br>
<br>
0121460 \b ~ / \b / . \b . n \b n e \b e t \b<br>
0121500 t r \b r c \b c \n \n A \b A T \b T T<br>
<br>
That means: most of the characters are backspaced and written again !<br>
Checked a couple of man pages, most of them have these useless<br>
sequences in them, so grepping man pages is mostly impossible now.<br>
<br>
Is this really intended, or produces some document tool this garbage<br>
in the process of man page generation ?<br>
-- <br>
Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT<br>
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