Re: *.gz files

[Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl>]

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Will wrote:

> Quick Newbie Question:
> 
> What are *.gz files?  And what can I do to read/print/view them?

They are files compressed with gzip. If they are compressed text files and
you have the less package from the unstable distribution, you can put this
line in your /etc/profile :

eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe)

This will allow you to use "less" to view a variety of compressed files,
among which *.gz, *.tar.gz and even *.deb files. You won't see the
contents of every file in a debian package, but you will get useful
information if you do "less <something>.deb". Look at /usr/bin/lesspipe
(it's a bash script) for details.

Remco


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