Re: *.gz

[RAccess <pi@home.com>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Hi!
>
> this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is
> gzipped?
> Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
> Marcelo
>
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Try using mc (midnight commander (apt-get install mc)) to read these kinds
of file. It unzips without prompting. u just have to choose the file ask
mc to view it. Other option is to make a little shell script to this job
from the command line.

Good luck.

RAccess
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