Comment by vram22

I agree with your point. There should be easier ways of doing some things in Unix. But since there are not (for some things, anyway, and I say this as a long-time Unix guy), sometimes, scripts can help. Here is one example by me:

m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...

This tiny script lets you generate man pages as cleaned-up text, saves them in a ~/man directory, and you can from then on, open them in your favorite text editor or even pager (less/more/pg/etc.) and view them. Created it out of real-life personal need some years ago, on a Unix system, but is still useful on Linux and other Unix-like systems today.