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



Vineet Kumar wrote:

* 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.

good times,
Vineet
Very useful.
Thanks for tip. Could send it to debianplanet.
Kenneth




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