man/cat1/zless.1.txt
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NAME zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of com- pressed text SYNOPSIS zless [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION Zless is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft- copy terminal. It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq -- %s", and then running less. However, enough people seem to think that having the command zless available is impor- tant to be worth providing it. Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works with files specified as arguments. If you really want to use less in a pipe, then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of zless. SEE ALSO zmore(1), less(1) BUGS Zless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verba- tim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute transla- tions of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation. ZLESS(1) |