On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 02:17, nate wrote: > Joao Pedro Clemente said: > > > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > > way of reading this instead of unpacking first... > > > > I wonder if, for instance, "less" could automatically unpack it for > > I use 'zmore' > > zmore README.gz > > zcat should work too > > wish there were such tools for .bz2 archives...... > > nate >
less, at least by the time of the one in unstable, automagically pipes
the file, gzipped or bzipped, through the appropriate decompressor
before paging the file, if you include
eval $(lessfile)
in your profile. lesspipe is also a possibility - both are included in
the "less" package. Use man lesspipe|lessfile - the two commands are the
same executable, adjusted in behaviour based on the calling name.
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