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(7) 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, 2015-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man-
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sions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a transla-
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NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.8.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip.
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