Re: About extra features of less

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

* Tong* <sun_tong_001@yahoo.com> writes:

> I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can
> use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc.
> I can't do it now in Debian.

Put the line
    eval `lesspipe`
in your shell startup script (~/.profile).

Martin


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