# phpman > info > xzless

[XZLESS(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XZLESS/1/markdown)                          XZ Utils                          [XZLESS(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XZLESS/1/markdown)

NAME
       xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files

SYNOPSIS
       xzless [file...]
       lzless [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       xzless is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a termi-
       nal.  It works on files compressed with [xz(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xz/1/markdown) or [lzma(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lzma/1/markdown).  If no  files
       are given, xzless reads from standard input.

       xzless  uses  [less(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/less/1/markdown) to present its output.  Unlike xzmore, its choice
       of pager cannot be altered by setting an  environment  variable.   Com-
       mands  are  based  on  both  [more(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/more/1/markdown) and [vi(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vi/1/markdown) and allow back and forth
       movement and searching.  See the [less(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/less/1/markdown) manual for more information.

       The command named lzless is provided for  backward  compatibility  with
       LZMA Utils.

ENVIRONMENT
       LESSMETACHARS
              A list of characters special to the shell.  Set by xzless unless
              it is already set in the environment.

       LESSOPEN
              Set to a command line to invoke the [xz(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xz/1/markdown) decompressor for  pre-
              processing the input files to [less(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/less/1/markdown).

SEE ALSO
       [less(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/less/1/markdown), [xz(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xz/1/markdown), [xzmore(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xzmore/1/markdown), [zless(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/zless/1/markdown)

Tukaani                           2010-09-27                         [XZLESS(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XZLESS/1/markdown)