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and subject line Fixed in gzip 1.5
has caused the Debian Bug report #407278,
regarding gzip: zless: make it work as a pipe command too
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Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.5-15
Severity: normal
hi,
it's a long standing bug:
% zless file.gz
works, while
% zless < file.gz
doesn't. That'd be useful in eg mutt when piping out .gz attachments.
Following patch makes zless work on pipes like eg bzless.
#--[zless.diff]------------
--- /bin/zless.orig Wed Jan 17 11:42:33 2007
+++ /bin/zless Wed Jan 17 11:41:16 2007
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/sh
PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"; export PATH
-LESSOPEN="|gzip -cdfq %s"; export LESSOPEN
-exec less "$@"
+case $# in
+ 0) LESS="gzip -cdq | less" ;;
+ *) LESS="gzip -cdfq \"$1\" | less" ;;
+esac
+eval exec $LESS
+
#--------------------------
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paolo
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: gzip
Version: 1.5-1
This problem has been fixed in gzip 1.5[1]. The patch requires less 429
or later, but that version has been in Debian for over nine years already.
1.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=ee0e33940f9e6cb0225692337fa06c981108c64e
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