Re: viewing gzipped files "inline" with less (was Re: FW: kernelsource patching)
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:
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> Vineet Kumar wrote:
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> >* Russell (rjshaw@iprimus.com.au) [020831 20:30]:
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> >
> >>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.
You can also just use zless.
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