On 16/08/2011 16:08, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > >> I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. >> There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless >> program can just consult the magic db to determine which decompression program >> to use. > > FWIW, if you the following in your bashrc: > > if [ -f /usr/bin/lesspipe ]; then > eval "$(lesspipe)" > fi > > you can just "less somegzfile" or "less somebzipfile". In squeeze you > can't use less on a xz compressed file, but I guess that could be added. That works when you do "less somefile.gz" or something, but doesn't work out so well on gz/bz2 streams, unfortunately. Isn't it possible to detect this based on some magic strings at the beginning of the stream? -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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