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Re: About extra features of less



Hello

* Tong* (<sun_tong_001@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Anybody know how they did that?

No, but on Debian systems there are some preconfigured scripts that
allow you to open gz and bzip2 files directly, e.g. zless, bzless, zcat
and bzcat.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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