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Hello,
I am just a new born baby to UNIX...and I need some help to copy a particular man command. Can anybody help me here please.
I want to copy man ls to a file called ls-man
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cp man ls > ls-man
but no success.
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man ls > ls-man
That may leave formatting characters in that you may prefer to not have. If so try:
man ls | col -b > ls-man
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