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Re: Less and .gz files



less was probably linked to zless, since zless will read un-gzipped files
fine.  It's a minor waste of resources, but you can always do:

cd /etc/alternatives; ln -s /usr/bin/zless less

to make this happen. Alternatively, just use zless for gzipped files.

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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?
> 
> cheers,
> Raffaele
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