gzmore - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
gzmore [ name ... ]
GZMORE(1) General Commands Manual GZMORE(1)
NAME
gzmore - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
SYNOPSIS
gzmore [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The gzmore command is a filter which allows examination of compressed
or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal.
The gzmore command works on files compressed with compress, pack or
gzip, and also on uncompressed files. If a file does not exist, gzmore
looks for a file of the same name with the addition of a .gz, .z or .Z
suffix.
The gzmore command normally pauses after each screenful, printing
--More-- at the bottom of the screen. If the user then types a car-
riage return, one more line is displayed. If the user hits a space,
another screenful is displayed. Other possibilities are enumerated
later.
The gzmore command looks in the file /etc/termcap to determine terminal
characteristics, and to determine the default window size. On a termi-
nal capable of displaying 24 lines, the default window size is 22
lines. To use a pager other than the default more, set environment
variable PAGER to the name of the desired program, such as less.
Other sequences which may be typed when gzmore pauses, and their
effects, are as follows (i is an optional integer argument, defaulting
to 1) :
i<space>
display i more lines, (or another screenful if no argument is
given)
^D display 11 more lines (a ``scroll''). If i is given, then the
scroll size is set to i.
d same as ^D (control-D)
iz same as typing a space except that i, if present, becomes the
new window size.
is skip i lines and print a screenful of lines
if skip i screenfuls and print a screenful of lines
q or Q Quit.
= Display the current line number.
i/expr search for the i-th occurrence of the regular expression expr.
The user's erase and kill characters may be used to edit the
regular expression. Erasing back past the first column cancels
the search command.
in search for the i-th occurrence of the last regular expression
entered.
!command
invoke a shell with command. The character `!' in "command" is
replaced with the previous shell command. The sequence "\!" is
replaced by "!".
:q or :Q
Quit (same as q or Q).
. (dot) repeat the previous command.
The commands take effect immediately, i.e., it is not necessary to type
a carriage return. Up to the time when the command character itself is
given, the user may hit the line kill character to cancel the numerical
argument being formed. In addition, the user may hit the erase charac-
ter to redisplay the --More-- message.
At any time when output is being sent to the terminal, the user can hit
the quit key (normally control-\). The gzmore command will stop send-
ing output, and will display the usual --More-- prompt. The user may
then enter one of the above commands in the normal manner. Unfortu-
nately, some output is lost when this is done, due to the fact that any
characters waiting in the terminal's output queue are flushed when the
quit signal occurs.
The terminal is set to noecho mode by this program so that the output
can be continuous. What you type will thus not show on your terminal,
except for the / and ! commands.
If the standard output is not a teletype, then gzmore acts just like
gzcat, except that a header is printed before each file if there is
more than one file.
FILES
/etc/termcap
Terminal data base
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | compress/gzip |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Committed |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
more(1), gzip(1), gzdiff(1), gzgrep(1), gznew(1), gzforce(1), gzexe(1)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
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-1.12.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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