*- Ralph Winslow wrote about "Re: absolute beginner !"
| Peter Iannarelli wrote:
| >
| > Hay there absolute beginner:
| >
| > That pretty good for a first go around.
| >
| > To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip <file-name>.
|
| Rather than that you could leeve them compressed thereby saving sapce,
| and
|
| gzcat wherever/whatever.gz | less
Or you could put the following in your .login/.cshrc or whatever startup
file for your shell. (this works for my tcsh shell)
eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe`
and then less will automagically open all kinds of tar, gzip, etc files.
So then you just
less wherever/whatever.gz
Good luck,
--
Brian
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