Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that James Vega may or may not have written...

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:06:34PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
[snip; *zless]
>>> Right now these functions are spread across 4 different binaries, each of
>>> which is in a different package.
>> Probably the best thing to do would be to just incorporate the
>> functionality in the less package.

> You mean like lesspipe(1)?  Seems like it might need to be updated to
> handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill.

The following in ~/.lessfilter adds that support (as a workaround until
lesspipe has it):

#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
  *.xz)
    xzcat "$1"
    ;;
  *)
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
exit 0

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