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@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.TH ZLESS 1 +.SH NAME +zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B zless +[ name ... ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I 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>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~', +and then running +.IR less . +However, enough people seem to think that having the +command +.I zless +available is important to be worth providing it. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +zmore(1), less(1) +.SH "BUGS" +.I 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 +.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less" +instead of +.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" . +.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE" +Copyright \(co 2006-2007, 2015-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.br +Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly +.PP +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. +.ig +Permission is granted to process this file through troff and print the +results, provided the printed document carries copying permission +notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph +(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual). +.. +.PP +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. +.PP +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. |