Re: [lesspipe]
>
> Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > To configure "less" to be more useful, you can set some environment
> > variables. If you like them, place the commands to set them in
> > /etc/profile and they will be set every time you log in. These are the
> > commands:
> >
> > export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s'
> > This makes "less" pipe everything you view through this script.
> > This gives you readable information for verious non-text files, like .tgz,
> > .gz, .tar, .zip, .arj and .deb files.
>
> This is nice, but where is lesspipe?
>
> $ more /var/lib/dpkg/info/less.list
>
> Not there!
Seems you've got a rather old version of less, maybe?
$ grep pipe /var/lib/dpkg/info/less.list
/usr/bin/lesspipe
$ dpkg -l less
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii less 332-2 A file pager program, similar to more(1)
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