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in thread Parsing (l)unix man pages

Man usually just prints the text when it sees that the output is not going to a terminal...

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Re: Re: Re: Parsing (l)unix man pages
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 21, 2001 at 01:32 UTC
    
    perl -e 'open(FILE, "/usr/bin/man ssh | "); while(<FILE>) { print if /SYNOPSIS/ }'
    (testing)%perl -e 'open(FILE, "/usr/bin/man ssh | "); while(<FILE>) { print if /SYNOPSIS/ }'
    (testing)%
    
    
    
    well see that doesn't work for me... I'm using hyperterminal in winNT dunno if that is why or not. I just get no output from the above cmd.
      :(testing)%perl -e 'open(FILE, "/usr/bin/man ssh| ");while(<FILE>){pri +nt if /SYNOPSIS/ }' :(testing)%
      heh, didn't use code tags and it took out the <FILE> part but it still doesn't work.