On 19 Feb 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i > get less to do it also on Debian? > > cheers, > Raffaele > -- > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" > ID: 0xEC4950E9 >
You need to enable lessopen. See the man pages for less and lesspipe. I have the following environmental setting: LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s" This avoids the need to decompress the entire file before starting to read it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
