.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",
+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
+command
.I zless
available is important to be worth providing it.
-
-Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works
-with files specified as arguments. If you really want to use less in a pipe,
-then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of zless.
.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" .
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