character duplication on man pages piped to open -f
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Curiously, if you pipe any man page to open -f you get a duplication of characters in certain fields. For example, try
man osadecompile | open -f
which gets something like this:
Obviously, the duplication doesn't arise if the command goes to standard output, so it must be something to do with either the way 'open' deals with the input or the text editor (in this case, TextEdit.app) deals with the open -f command.
I would like to find a way to stop this happening, but I'm at a bit of a loss for the cause let alone the solution.
Any thoughts?
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)