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Re: Terminal Stuttering
From:
Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 21 May 2003 14:11:35 -0400
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On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 12:57  PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:

> I tried this "manually" in terminal
>
> Man cp >~/mydoc.txt
>
> But the result includes some "stuttering", so I'm wondering about the
> what
> would happen if I tried to use this with do shell script.
>
You have to pipe it through nroff which strips the formatting

man cp |nroff >~/mydoc.txt

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