X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=zless.1;h=6bf667af007ebd21a6e78788323979bf4e86bb41;hb=6ad498af0f32d7cf3527923f2b790c940307ffd4;hp=26d0ddd3b00ae65f588a7b05439bf34e18c4ccac;hpb=a7660333f1a126dea0cfb50797099f790283d1b6;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1 index 26d0ddd..6bf667a 100644 --- a/zless.1 +++ b/zless.1 @@ -10,25 +10,25 @@ 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 -"';*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'", +\&';*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~', and then running .IR less . -.I Less -now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the -.I lessfile -and -.I lesspipe -filters. +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), lessfile(1), lesspipe(1) +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. -If you really want to use less in a pipe, -then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless. +To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use +.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less" +instead of +.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" . .SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE" -Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright \(co 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly .PP