gzless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
gzless [ name ... ]
GZLESS(1) General Commands Manual GZLESS(1) NAME gzless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text SYNOPSIS gzless [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION Gzless 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 gzless available is important to be worth providing it. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | compress/gzip | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Committed | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO gzmore(1), less(1) BUGS Gzless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via stan- dard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments. To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use ...|gunzip|less instead of ...|gzless. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a per- mission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man- ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver- sions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a transla- tion approved by the Foundation. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.5.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/. GZLESS(1)