Hi, wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>> On 26 Nov 2021, at 20:40, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >> >> # On my own machines `lv` makes a fine `pager` for me. On the fly >> # decompression and handling of many different encodings. So for me, >> # it's just >> # >> # pager /var/log/syslog.2.gz >> # >> # without any `zmore` or `zcat` piping. There is still no zpager :-/ >> # but with `lv` I don't really need one. > > Does lv provide anything extra or different to enabling lesspipe.sh in bashrc? The main reason for me to use lv was a need to view text files encoded in one of Shift-JIS, EUC-JP or UTF-8. With lv, most of the time it guesses the encoding right and if not you can loop through a bunch of supported encodings with `t`. # I've also had to deal with files with mixed encodings :-0, part # Shift-JIS, part ISO-8859-* and sometimes even a bit in one of the # Chinese encodings. Being able to toggle encoding for the current # "page" on the fly makes it at least possible to see what's in the # file. Looking at the lesspipe manual page[1] (don't have less installed ;-), it seems that it doesn't support on-the-fly encoding switching but as far as dealing with compressed files, I guess there is no or not much difference. [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/less/lesspipe.1.en.html Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
