Speaking of man pages, in earlier versions of Unix and Linux, I used to want to redirect the output of many man commands to files for later reading, e.g. if wor

Speaking of man pages, in earlier versions of Unix and Linux, I used to want to redirect the output of many man commands to files for later reading, e.g. if working on C, say I wanted to read 'man ioctl', 'man stdio', 'man signal', etc. But the man output had {n|t}roff formatting characters in it, for print output, which used to mess up vi. So I used to use this script I wrote, called m: # Put this script in a directory in your PATH. # m: pipe man output through col and save to file(s). mkdir -p ~/man # Only creates the dir first time, including all dirs in the path. for name: # in $* is implied man $name | col -bx > ~/man/$name.m done Do a "chmod u+x m" to be able to run it. Then run it like this: m ioctl stdio signal # or any other commands Then: pushd ~/man; view ioctl.m stdio.m signal.m; popd to read those pages, now stripped of formatting characters.