This command will give a list of the commands required to remove the old files:

If you are happy with the results, you can remove the "echo" to delete the files. I did just that on my machine and now I'm fine.

Thanks for this hint. I was wondering why man bash and Bwana were still showing the man page for bash version 2.05 instead of 3 (Bwana also required cleaning of its cache dir ~/Library/Caches).

Another correction, the -type f needs to go, lots of old symbolic links are missed otherwise.

That makes it

sudo find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec tar --absolute-names -rzvf ~/man.tgz {} \;

I should note that I had no problems running this command without leading sudo, so you may wish to omit that.

There might be a smarter way to first list all the files and then form the archive, but this only took 1 minute and 41 seconds.

If you ever need to restore: tar xzf ~/man.tgz will put them all back.

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