Re: Less and .gz files
High,
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i
> get less to do it also on Debian?
>
yes, but the command is 'zless'. I beleive that the package gzip provides
these commands. You will get a lot of other 'z' commands too, like zcat,
zdiff, zgrep, zmore, zetc...
Same with the package bzip2, which gives you the opportunity to bzless,
bzcat, bzcmp, bzetc... .bz2 files.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
> cheers,
> Raffaele
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