Re: Less and .gz files
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:08, Sebastiaan wrote:
> 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?
It uses LESSPIPE...
>From the manual page... 'man lesspipe'
lessfile and lesspipe are programs that can be used to
modify the way the contents of a file are displayed in
less. What this means is that less can automatically open
up tar files, uncompress gzipped files, and even display
something reasonable for graphics files.
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