zless

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Langue: en

Version: 4432 (debian - 06/08/07)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed 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 important 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)