Very Computer

Ok flame me.. So I don't know unix! Everybodys starts someplace!

Is there a way to extract ALL man pages to pure ascii??

Currently I do:
        man -a <cmd> |& col -b > ~/asciiman/<cmd>.man

I would like to automate this and extract all man pages to <cmd>.man

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        prefix=/home/myman
        for section in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
        do
                mkdir -p ${prefix}/${section}
        done
        cd /usr/share/man
        for file in man*/*
        do
                file=`echo $file | sed -e 's/\.gz$//'`
                gzcat $file | tbl | nroff -mandoc |\
                        col -b > ${prefix}/${file}.man
        done

This will format the system manual.  You will have to do the same for
/usr/local/man/man* and /usr/X11R6/man/man* if you care.

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cheers, J"org

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)