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ZLESS(1)                               General Commands Manual                              ZLESS(1)



NAME
       zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

SYNOPSIS
       zless [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Zless is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at
       a time on a soft-copy terminal.  It is the equivalent of  setting  the  environment  variable
       LESSOPEN   to   '|gzip   -cdfq   --  %s',  and  the  environment  variable  LESSMETACHARS  to
       '<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~', and then running less.   However,  enough  people
       seem to think that having the command zless available is important to be worth providing it.

SEE ALSO
       zmore(1), less(1)

BUGS
       Zless  does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard input; it requires
       that input files be specified as arguments.  To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
       ...|gunzip|less instead of ...|zless.

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       Copyright © 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly

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