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macOS/darwin (Unix) userTLDR: man col | col -b
Use col -b to remove text formatting (backspaces) from any shell output.
Formatted (bold, colorized, etc) text in a terminal relies on backspace hacks, which looks like this when piped into a text editor:
Use the -b (backspace) flag with the col command to remove the backspaces used to format text:
man col | col -b
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