zless(1) zless(1)
NAME
zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
SYNOPSIS
zless [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The zless command 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 the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~', and then running less.
However, enough people seem to think that having the command zless
available is important to be worth providing it.
SEE ALSO
zmore(1), less(1)
BUGS
The zless command does not work with compressed data that is piped to
it via standard input; it requires that input files be specified as
arguments. To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use ...|gun-
zip|less instead of ...|zless.
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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zless(1)
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