ZLESS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  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 (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly

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       Permission  is  granted	to  copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
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