Re: Less and .gz files

[Morten Bo Johansen <mbj@spamfilter.dk>]

Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch> wrote:

RS> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i 
RS> get less to do it also on Debian?

I have included

        LESSOPEN="| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s"

in my /etc/enviroment

This enables less to view the contents of a number of file
formats including .bz2 .deb and others.

This is enabled by default in SuSE, and I don't know if there is a
reason why it is not in Debian.



Regards,

Morten

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