Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: >> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text >> files. Can i get less to do it also on Debian? > yes, but the command is 'zless'. I beleive that the package gzip provides > these commands. You will get a lot of other 'z' commands too, like zcat, > zdiff, zgrep, zmore, zetc...
Not necessarily. I say just 'less' even when I want to less gzipped or bz2'd files. Trick is to use lesspipe. From my ~/.bash_profile: LESS="-M-Q" LESSOPEN="| lesspipe %s" LESSCHARSET=latin1 PAGER=less export LESS LESSOPEN LESSCHARSET PAGER lesspipe is a shell-script that checks the extension on a filename and decides how files should be viewed. To .gz-files it does does a simple 'gzip -dc', for tar's it uses 'tar tvf', for .docs 'catdoc', picture-files such as .jpeg or .gif it says 'identify' and so one. lesspipe comes with less. Suonpää...
