I'm running man in non interactive mode from bash and I'm displaying the result on the webpage. I have number of character per line calculated on a page, how can I inform the man command about number of characters per line?
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If you're using man on Linux to generate the output (e.g. man command > output-file) then you can set MANWIDTH to the value you'd like.
MANWIDTH=120 man tr > tr.txt
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see also: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/18491/117549 for telling `groff` how to do it by hand. – Jeff Schaller Jan 08 '16 at 21:01