zless(1)

NAME

   zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

SYNOPSIS

   zless [ name ...  ]

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.

SEE ALSO

   zmore(1), less(1)

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.

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.

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