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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ^H characters appear when opening text file using vi - RHEL Post 302819045 by bakunin on Monday 10th of June 2013 07:05:06 AM
Old 06-10-2013
A man page is not just a simple text document. When you issue man <something> you will notice that bold printing and maybe other formatting appears. This is done by "compiling" man (source) pages with a text formatting utility: troff, which basically inserts these formatting codes into the text.

If you have gotten your man page by a command like:

Code:
man ksh > /path/to/some/file

then these formatting codes are still in it.
Code:
cat

just doesn't display them. Use a utility like deroff to remove the formatting and markup.

I hope this helps.

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