Re: viewing gzipped files 'inline' with less (was Re: FW: kernel source patching)

["Alex Malinovich" <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>]

Vineet Kumar said:
> * Russell (rjshaw@iprimus.com.au) [020831 20:30]:
>> Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz
>> text files without having to first unzip them.
>
> less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the
> environment is properly primed with "eval $(lesspipe)".  It can view
> many different types of files.  Try it on a .deb!  Have fun.

Or you can just use zless.

-Alex