in reply to grepping man pages
man pages are under a format that can be read by groff.
you could get the ascii text of a man page by doing this:
$manfilename is the particular man page you are trying to get.
Look around the directory, you will understand how the files are stored.
Hope that helps,
Guillaume
where $manpath is the path to your man pages ('/usr/local/man/' on my system).open(MAN, "groff -Tascii $manpath/$manfilename |") or die"ERROR:$!\n"; @manpage = <MAN>;
$manfilename is the particular man page you are trying to get.
Look around the directory, you will understand how the files are stored.
Hope that helps,
Guillaume
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