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Answer by Stack_Exchange_User_adsf for How to view man pages without the...

Ah, I found the solution! You need to set the MANWIDTH environment variable before calling the man command, such as like this: MANWIDTH=10000 man ls This will set the width of the columns to be so wide...

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Answer by Hinz for How to view man pages without the unnecessary linefeeds?

From what you describe I guess you have text files with line breaks after a fixed width, which will look ugly in a window that is to small for this width. Right? If so you could use cat mytextfile | tr...

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How to view man pages without the unnecessary linefeeds?

I like to copy man pages to my own offline documentation where I can highlight and supplement the information with my own notes. However, I always have a problem with the exported text containing...

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