On 2014-09-24 18:01:04 -0300, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> The Gentoo version of lesspipe¹ is vastly superior:
> 
> It supports files inside archive, archive compression detection
> (all these .(sh|txt|log|...).gz + compressed manpages and other
> files commonly compressed in /usr/share/, ...)

Friebel's version can do that too, and recursively (the recursion
depth is limited, but sufficient in practice).

> and, most of all, filetype detection through `file` in case no
> extension is detected.

Friebel's version uses "file" too.

It can also do charset conversion, e.g. to be able to read an
ISO-8859-1 file under UTF-8 locales.

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