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zless

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.  Less now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through
       the lessfile and lesspipe filters.

SEE ALSO

       zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(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.
       If you really want to use less in a pipe, then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

       Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       Copyright (C) 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.

																	  ZLESS(1)

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