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Bug#1776: zless missing



On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, eckes wrote:

> Package: gzip
>
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:
>
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> for args
> do
>     zcat $args | less
> done

Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever
file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable.

export PAGER=less            # in ~/.bash_profile, or other setup file
zmore file1 file2 file3      # this will use less, not more


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