Reading Man Files In Text Edit

6 04 2009

The point of this blog is going to be to provide useful computer tips and also tell what I have been up to. Now on with the post.

This is hopefully going to be a useful tip to some people. For those of you who are new to unix (on osx or linux) and are reading about commands using “man [command]” in the terminal it gets very annoying to move through it at the slow speed of using arrow keys, here is a little fix. In terminal your going to type (I use zip as the example command)

  • man zip >test.txt
  • open -e test.txt
  • rm test.txt

Now you should have a text edit window with that man file up!

Enjoy


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6 04 2009
sanjid

Note that you can also use >> to add whatever it is to the end of the already existing document.

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