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59 lines
2.0 KiB
Groff
.TH ZLESS 1
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.SH NAME
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zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B zless
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[ name ... ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B zless
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command
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is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files
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one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of
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setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
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and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
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\&'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~',
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and then running
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.BR less .
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However, enough people seem to think that having the
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command
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.B zless
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available is important to be worth providing it.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR zmore (1),
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.BR less (1)
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.SH "BUGS"
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The
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.B zless
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command
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does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
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input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
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To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
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.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less"
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instead of
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.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
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.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
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Copyright \(co 2006\(en2007, 2015\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.br
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Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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.PP
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
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this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
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are preserved on all copies.
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.ig
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Permission is granted to process this file through troff and print the
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results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
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notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
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(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
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..
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.PP
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
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manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
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resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
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notice identical to this one.
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.PP
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
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into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
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except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
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by the Foundation.
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