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       The zless command is a filter which allows examination of compressed or
13       plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy  terminal.   It
14       is  the  equivalent  of  setting  the  environment variable LESSOPEN to
15       '|gzip -cdfq -- %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       The  zless  command does not work with compressed data that is piped to
25       it via standard input; it requires that input files be specified as ar‐
26       guments.   To  read  compressed  data from a pipe, you can use ...|gun‐
27       zip|less instead of ...|zless.
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31       Copyright © 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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