On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
man --help|grep ascii -7, --ascii display ASCII translation of certain latin1 chars
Extending on this you could simply do:
man -7 rsync > rsync.txt
wc -l rsync.txt 2079 rsync.txt
The -7 option to man made no difference to the number of lines reported in my test. $ man -7 rsync | wc -l 3446 $ man rsync | wc -l 3446 I'm using Debian/Wheezy with rsync 3.0.9. I guess you have an older version. 3446 lines was about 9 pages by my quick estimation. $ man rsync | wc -w 24206 Also based on word count it would be as much as 13 magazine articles assuming that what wc regards as a word is a good match for what a magazine regards as a word. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/