zless
file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
see also :
zmore - less
Synopsis
zless [
name ... ]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
settitle unisonmanual
exec zless
/usr/share/doc/unison*/unison-manual.txt.gz
source
echo $f
zless $f | head -n $nlines | column -t | less -N -S
source
echo $f
zless $f | tail -n $nlines | column -t | less -N -S
description
Zless is
a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain
text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal.
It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable
LESSOPEN to ’|gzip -cdfq -- %s’, and the
environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
’<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^’#\$%=~’,
and then running less. However, enough people seem to
think that having the command zless available is
important to be worth providing it.
copyright notice
Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright © 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission
notice are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided
that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the
terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for
modified versions, except that this permission notice may be
stated in a translation approved by the Foundation.
bugs
Zless
does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via
standard input; it requires that input files be specified as
arguments. To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
...|gunzip|less instead of ...|zless.
see also
zmore ,
less