Re: Less and .gz files
On 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?
>
> cheers,
> Raffaele
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You need to enable lessopen. See the man pages for less and lesspipe. I
have the following environmental setting:
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s"
This avoids the need to decompress the entire file before starting to
read it.
Anthony
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