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