1ZLESS(1)                    General Commands Manual                   ZLESS(1)
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NAME

6       zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
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SYNOPSIS

9       zless [ name ...  ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Zless  is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
13       files one screenful at a time on  a  soft-copy  terminal.   It  is  the
14       equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq
15       --   %s',   and   the    environment    variable    LESSMETACHARS    to
16       '<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~',   and  then  running  less.
17       However, enough people seem to think  that  having  the  command  zless
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SEE ALSO

21       zmore(1), less(1)
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BUGS

24       Zless  does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via stan‐
25       dard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.  To
26       read  compressed  data from a pipe, you can use ...|gunzip|less instead
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30       Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
31       Copyright © 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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